Word: forresters
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...audience to the extreme. “My hope at the symposium is to recapture something of the excitement of the premiere, by thinking about the context in which the Rite’s first audience experienced it,” Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music Thomas Forrest Kelly notes of “The Rite of Spring.” “The cultural context of Paris in 1913, the context of the Russian Ballet, the context of the ballet within the program of the evening…It was deliberately ‘primitive?...
...classical backgrounds to explore their unique styles and perform together. HCAMA has now also given musicians the opportunity to perform in the Queen’s Head Pub.“There was not enough focus on bluegrass,” says mandolin player and current HCAMA president Forrest E. O’Connor ’10 when asked why he and Clay D. Miller ’10 founded HCAMA. “There was very little representation here at all.” Since then, O’Connor has expanded the group to include folk, Celtic...
...gear and a “Balls of Fury” shirt ascended to the basketball courts. Here, they battled for the intramural sport championship treasured most by every House: table tennis. This was not the ping pong played in your basement back home; this was an all-out, Forrest Gump-style paddle whacking session. And to those that question the legitimacy of table tennis as a sport, Winthrop resident and team member Norman Y. Yao ’09, president of the Harvard Table Tennis Club and commonly regarded as the best player on campus, adamantly defended the sport...
...Soon after Siegel and Shuster's Superman appeared, and a year later, Bob Kane's Batman - and, perhaps not coincidentally, right after the first science-fiction convention where Forrest J. Ackerman came dressed as a spacemen, thus inaugurating the pulp tribute costume - a group of citizens donned masks and gaudy couture and called themselves the Minutemen. Not so much groupies as avatars of the fictional superheroes, they spent World War II getting off on doing their truth-justice-and-the-American-way thing. Disbanded in 1944, they reconvened with some new personnel, and by the '60s were important factors...
...HANKS to switch on Hadron Collider. We always knew Forrest Gump was smarter than he looked...