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After a summer of construction, the student organization offices at Hilles quietly opened its doors yesterday. The first sign of life: an ornate wooden throne, littered with purple cushions, recently moved into the office of the Harvard-Radcliffe Gilbert and Sullivan Players. Offices and meeting rooms opened for groups to move in, and the Gilbert and Sullivan performers were one of the first to claim their spot in the new student center, which features brightly lit student group offices along corridors of translucent walls. The club’s president Casey M. Lurtz ’07 said that overall...
...pessimism about existence after delving into the field that deconstructs all of life’s “little wonders” into splashes of hormones and malfunctioning cognitive processes! Regrettably, you didn’t enroll in this course two years ago when psychologist/author/performance artist/uberstar Daniel T. Gilbert was its instructor. And while Gilbert was known for giving out multiple-choice tests (HA!) that seemed to be part of a large, as yet undisclosed experiment into the induction of anxiety and regret in 18-22 year olds (not so HA!), Jeremy Wolff will request that your mastery...
...pray what is the cause of this remarkable hilarity? Ken Martin, 69, is fairly sure it's his dancing. The Mackay Choral Society is rehearsing Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Gondoliers, and "I can't dance," admits the retired transport-firm manager and future Duke of Plaza-Toro. The whole choir is laughing, "but it's me who's getting it right," he says. "The rest of them are wrong...
...centerpiece was the 128.54-carat Tiffany Diamond, one of the largest yellow diamonds in the world. The gem, since reset in a brooch known as "Bird on a Rock," pictured, is itself now one of the biggest stars in "Bejewelled by Tiffany, 1837-1987." The exhibition?at the Gilbert Collection, Somerset House in London until Nov. 26 and expected to travel to China and Japan later this year?traces the irresistible rise of Tiffany & Co. from its inception in 1837 as a small fancy-goods store on New York City's Broadway, and how the company instilled its jewelry with...
...directive] centrepiece was the 128.54-carat Tiffany Diamond, one of the largest yellow diamonds in the world. The gem, since reset in a brooch known as "Bird on a Rock," pictured, is itself now one of the biggest stars in "Bejewelled by Tiffany, 1837-1987." The exhibition-at the Gilbert Collection, Somerset House in London until Nov.26 and expected to travel to China and Japan later this year-traces the irresistible rise of Tiffany & Co. from its inception in 1837 as a small fancy-good store on New York City's Broadway, and how the company instilled its jewelry with...