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...difficult to resist, impossible to shrug off as another mini-version of a high falutin' charity gala. Formal dress was not required, and neither was false piety or sentiment. It was a come-as-you-are, come-to-be-entertained affair. By making their show a fast-moving, talent-packed one, the Jazz for Life organizers served the audience as well as Oxfam America and the Phillips Brooks House Homeless Committee, the evening's charity beneficiaries...
Celebrity bashes are not the Kremlin's forte, but last week's coming- out party for Mikhail Gorbachev was worthy of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. The stars that shone at the glamorous gala ranged from literature (Graham Greene) through economics (John Kenneth Galbraith) to fashion (Pierre Cardin). The only common denominator seemed to be that the guests had world-size reputations and were willing to give a polite hearing to the Kremlin's pitch for peace...
Acting President Henry Rosovsky will host the gala event which will feature many Harvard a capella groups, and a variety of other graduate and undergraduate performers, including Don Braden '85-'88 who plays in Wynton Marsalis' band and Paul D. Brusiloff '86 and his band High Spirit...
...ballet dancer whose work epitomizes the cultural ascendancy of Western Civilization, a man who learned his art in Soviet Russia but fled to the West so that he could bring about the long-awaited union of ballet and tap-dancing for the silver screen, and you've got a gala Pudding opening night...
...Dowlings and House co-chairmen Richard Zayas and Margaret Pinkham hosted the gala, and Thomas Professor of English and American Literature Emeritus Daniel Aaron spoke at the dinner. About 130 people attended the dinner and 75 came to the dance afterwards...