Word: duked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...former acting dean of the faculty Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky after repeated protests by students in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Once spurred to action by vocal and committed undergraduates, Bok and Rosovsky managed to lure DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. away from Duke with a crucial dedication to future tenure appointments...
...story of a man who is beloved for spendthrift indulgence of his friends, then abandoned the instant his considerable fortune is gone, has been set in the jazz age and augmented with music by Duke Ellington. The semimodern dress and judicious pruning of the most convoluted language makes the text accessible, and its cynicism about the rich is timeless. But the play's rage depends in large part on the context of classical notions about the sacred nature of hospitality. These ideas of mutual obligation, almost unto ruin, were antique in Shakespeare's day, and are alien...
With center Crawford Palmer, the Duke transfer,having played out his one-year wonder tour of theIvy League, Dartmouth once again has a hole in themiddle. Freshmen big men Chris Butler and BiranGilpin could provide help, but Coach Dave Faucherremains cautious...
Harvard University Jazz Band. Big and small group jazz by Duke Ellington, Oliver Nelson, Ken Schaphorst, Allen Feinstein and Lester Young. Paine Hall, 8 p.m. $3 for students...
This is the sort of cast where even the footmen are brilliant and the sort of play that rewards such casting by dishing out juicy scenes and hysterical lines to even the most minor characters. One such minor character is the Duke of York (the younger son of George III), played by Julian Rhind-Tutt. With few lines, Rhind-Tutt turns his vacuous twit character into a running gag that grows funnier with each repetition...