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...Later in the night, Austin de Lone ’68 sang and performed on the piano Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A’Changin?...
...George Balanchine’s full-length plotless ballet “Jewels.” Considered the crown of Balanchine’s jazzy, bold, American-inspired works, it fits its Stravinsky score like a glove. Misa Kuranaga absolutely nailed the glamour, sexiness, and sophistication the pas de deux demands, adding just the appropriate amount of vulgar. Her flawless technique and assured assimilation of the role originated by Patricia McBride was aided by James Whiteside’s able partnering. Whiteside later appeared in “Ein Von Viel,” a modern ballet choreographed by Sabrina...
...often smoking on the street. Perhaps the worst aspect of this invasion of personal liberty and responsibility is the Commission’s reasoning behind it. Dr. Barbara Ferrer, the director of the Boston Public Health Commission, told the Boston Globe that her goal is to “de-normalize” smoking—a creepy and Orwellian notion. The idea of using a ban to manipulate culture and social norms, even for what the city considers the public good, is dangerously close to social engineering, and should concern any civil libertarian. All cost-benefit justifications and philosophical...
...Catholic liturgy: 19th-Century Italian priest Gaetano Errico; Mary Bernard (Verena) Bütler, a Swiss nun and missionary in Latin America who died in 1924; Alfonsa of the Immaculate Conception, a nun who who died in 1946 and is the first named female saint from India; and Narcisa de Jesús Martillo Morán, a pious laywoman from Ecuador who died in 1869. In the Catholic faith, only God can make a saint; these four are among those who "have emerged as individuals who can light the way ahead," as the Modern Catholic Encyclopedia puts...
...year 1958. So if you're a devotee of the AMC drama Mad Men, or just want to escape the current headline news, come here to see ads, products and memorabilia from the year that Elvis Presley was inducted into the U.S. Army, Nikita Khrushchev and General Charles De Gaulle became heads of state, NASA began its quest to put a man on the moon, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Dr. Zhivago topped bestseller lists, Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor shone in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and the Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., integrated...