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Gentlemen is set around A.D. 950 in a politically chaotic region of the Caucasus mountains. Our heroes are two rootless adventurers: Amram, a massive Abyssinian axman, and Zelikman, a pale, painfully skinny Frank (a kind of proto-German) who dresses in all black and carries a surgical instrument as a weapon. They are fast friends, seasoned brawlers and amateur philosophers given to terse exchanges of melancholy wit. They resemble--as all couples who stay together long enough ultimately do--Vladimir and Estragon from Waiting for Godot...
...This year, contemporary music is represented by the “Overture to The Great Gatsby.”The HRO has also started several new traditions in the past few years. The final concert this year will be a performance of Brahms’s “German Requiem” with the Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus during Arts First weekend. It is the latest in a series of annual performances of large choral and orchestra works which have been occurring regularly in the past several years. “Looking toward the future, HRO would like...
Toward the end of each calendar year, Ian Robertson puts his small arsenal of expensive fountain pens into overdrive. That's when Rolls-Royce motor cars sends an annual yearbook to customers who have purchased a Rolls since Jan. 1, 2003, when production began under the ownership of German automaker BMW. As head of Rolls-Royce, Robertson personally signs each of the book's accompanying cover letters. The bespoke touch is appreciated by the company's superrich clientele - which numbered 2,800 when Robertson performed the task last year. "With that many customers," he says, "I could just about...
What Harvard lacked in giant, House-sponsored dance parties this weekend, it made up for in wurst. Attendees at Oktoberfest, held in the Cambridge Queen’s Head, sampled a selection of authentic German sausages, side dishes, and of course, Oktoberfest beer. Revelers, many of them filtering in from Comedy for a Cause in Sanders Theatre, enjoyed a pub decorated in blue and white Oktoberfest pennants. Female employees dressed in themed costume. Alice E. M. Underwood ’11, a pub employee, recommended Bauernwurst as the best sausage and expressed enthusiasm for the event. “We?...
Still, when it came time for the 20th anniversary last year, Benedict was not going to shun Assisi altogether. While preparing for a trip a few days later to his native Bavaria, the German Pope sent a letter to the commemorative gathering that called his predecessor's focus on inter-faith dialogue at Assisi "prophetic" in light of the rising violence perpetrated in the name of religion...