Word: grandness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Orginally conceived by Third Rock from the Sun star John Lithgow '57 as an arts dinner to be held in honor of undergraduate students and faculty, the celebration has evolved into a four-day arts festival whose purpose is to galvanize the arts community at Harvard. A grand production that stems from the dedicated efforts of over 2000 people, Arts First is the realized dream of a shared vision for the arts--both on campus and off. Producer Myra A. Mayman views "the power of the arts as bringing people together" and allowing them to "take risks and think creatively...
When we were young, oh, those days were grand. We certainly do miss those good old days with recess and naptime. And now that we've grown up (okay, well, we can pretend), we have so much more to worry about: i.e., work, work, work. So even a trip to the movies seems to take up more brainpower than one would like. Well we've found something that plays like a movie but requires half the intellectual capacity, and it has all the laughs and drama one would ever want. Imagine stick figures on blind dates, skinny men stealing underwear...
When we were young, oh, those days were grand. We certainly do miss those good old days with recess and naptime. And now that we've grown up (okay, well, we can pretend), we have so much more to worry about: i.e., work, work, work. So even a trip to the movies seems to take up more brainpower than one would like. Well we've found something that plays like a movie but requires half the intellectual capacity, and it has all the laughs and drama one would ever want. Imagine stick figures on blind dates, skinny men stealing underwear...
Last week, the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed at the Roxbury Community College to celebrate conductor Seiji Ozawa's 25th Anniversary. Roberta Flack hosted the event, with Joseph Lin '00 joining them as a featured soloist for the first movement of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D, Opus 35. The grand affair, whose ambitious program featured famed excerpts from the likes of Strauss, Beethoven and Gershwin, kicked off a new BSO initiative called "Symphony in the City" the aim of which is to offer free music to the city neighborhoods of Boston...
There are moments when politics seems a grand calling, but the eruption of evil among schoolchildren isn't one of them, and so a curious and altogether appropriate quiet settled over American politicians in the wake of the nightmare at Columbine High. Not absolute silence, mind you--there's only so much we can expect of our politicians--but quiet: a kind of humility that suggested they knew they had come up against the limits of their trade...