Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brown dominated the final 20 minutes of the first and could have scored on several golden opportunities if wasn't for the netminding of Cowan...
DODGING THE GOLDEN...
...Cavalli's Giasone, written in 1649, was sort of a blockbuster back in the Italian seventeenth-centry. The libretto is the usual pastiche of bickering deities and hobnobbing heroes, loosely based on the story of Jason and the golden fleece. Cupid and Fate are having a quarrel about which one most controls mens' lives, and they cause amorous chaos among the mortals. Giasone, Aegeus, Medea, Hypsipyle and their servants mill about in confusion and slapstick till at last, all sung out and snugly paired off they come to a happy closing...
...makes Sashie's account is much more believable. Sashie feels the tension of assimilation; in one instance, she appeals to her hair for assistance in cultivating identity-- "There was a black coating on my hair but I could see out of the corners of my eyes that it was golden underneath, if they would only look." Yet even this typical immigrant assimilationist attitude appears over-written and over-dramatized...
...Houses." We'd publish FM Architectural Digest with luscious photography of the homes of Harvard's most esteemed faculty. They'd welcome us into their Victorian mansions or humble bungalows and give us the full tour from home-office, to library, to master bedroom. We'd wait for the "golden hour" around dinner time to shoot the grounds and the photos would be worthy of Better Homes and Gardens. But all 40 of Harvard's big wigs said no--"no way"-- except Harvey Mansfield who said yes and Henry Louis Gates Jr. who simply directed us to this month...