Word: everydayness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...children read April Morning, a coming-of-age novel by Howard Fast. It's the story of a boy, Adam Cooper, whose father is shot by the British on Lexington Common on April 19, 1775. In the chaos that follows, Adam joins a group of men who, in their everyday clothes, hiding behind walls and trees, mow down a column of Redcoats marching back from Concord...
...guest or a member of 19 others (as well as regularly attending ten staff meetings), from the Committee on House Life to the Committee on Public Service, which gives him regular contact with students and keeps him constantly thinking about the non-curricular issues that affect students’ everyday life. Dean Benedict H. Gross ’71, tapped by Kirby to assume the new position, will inevitably have to lay the burden of less critical student-faculty committee meetings (i.e. those that do not pertain to the curricular review that he took this deanship to oversee...
...Florence, Freddie and Anatoly face off in their pursuit to understand the ever-shifting alliances in love, life and politics. With lyrics by Tim Rice and a score by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, Chess was originally inspired by Cold War politics and its effects on the lives of everyday people, played out through the metaphor of Chess. The musical also offers a darker glimpse at the realities we avoid and the stories we invent, while “we go on pretending stories like ours have happy endings.” Through Saturday, April...
...game of chess is a metaphor for the relationships.” says co-producer Sarah E. Downer ’04. These relationships are not merely the results of entanglements of nationalist agendas, but also the everyday consequences of Cold War politics. The musical takes a darker look at the characters’ romances and the ways in which they mask their (occasionally unwanted) everyday realities...
...Diamonde [amy] Elise Keel, ‘Self Appointed Phallus Breaker,’” adds that she and Cardinale have similar personalities and senses of humor, and share a love for period dramas. “We hang out a lot—almost everyday,” Keel says. They point to a wall above their fireplace mantle, which features a collection of sacred Catholic images juxtaposed with an image of pop singer Madonna in a leather dominatrix ensemble, from the cover of her “Justify My Love” video. The wall embodies...