Word: haitians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, on Thanksgiving Day, Haiti finally got its concert hall and music school. Diplomats and Haitian Cabinet members were present for the dedication of the building, which contains a 500-seat auditorium. Five members of the Boston Symphony were also there, and so, of course, was Sister Anne Marie...
...mother superior of the Society of St. Margaret in Boston. "She is a fantastic woman," said Haitian Composer Ferrere Laguerre. "Very persistent, with great persuasive powers...
...well." Years after independence, former British colonies remain, almost without exception, poorly endowed with natural resources and handicapped by single-commodity, export-oriented economies that present few opportunities for rapid growth or full employment. Unemployment in the 22 Caribbean nations averages 40%. Millions of their citizens, including thousands of Haitian boat people, have made their way to jobs in America...
...city's neighborhoods on a different day. For instance, next Thursday evening at the Hyatt Regency Hotel Japanese, tap, jazz and improvisational dance forms will be performed alongside Renaissance, Scottish highland and Indian flute music. Friday in Central Square a Greek dance group will be followed by a Haitian folk singer; later on a Puerto Rican singing group and a reggae band will play...
Michaelides also maintained in the letter that he is innocent of bigamy. He said that he had obtained a Haitian divorce from his first wife, Mary, a U.S.-born schoolteacher, before marrying Alexandra. (In fact, Michaelides is now living again with Mary and their daughter, who was born after their divorce and named?in a mysterious allusion to both wives?Mary Alexandra...