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Equally, and perhaps more impressive, was the effect during the "Harvard signers of the Declaration of Independence" segment. After actors portrayed seven alum signatories, a lighted hand with a pen "wrote" a huger-than-life John Hancock across center-stage in more fireworks...
...Hugh Stubbins, Jr. (MAR '35). Even the controversial $52,000 Johnson Gatehouse was farmed out to a GSD grad, Graham Gund (MAR '68). In Boston, GSD buildings include the Federal Reserve Bank (Stubbins), Boston City Hall (Professors of Architecture Gerhard M. Kallmann and Noel M. McKinnell), and the John Hancock Tower (Professor of Architecture Harry N. Cobb...
...LAST SUCH celebration, of course, was the 350th birthday party the Big H threw for itself back in 1986. That was the one where the best and brightest gathered together to watch a massive fireworks show, which climaxed in a pyrotechnic emblazonement of John Hancock's signature. Back then, the display was large enough for the celebration's guest of honor, Britain's Prince Charles, to read without his spectacles. Atmospheric conditions permitting Saturday night, our brethren at the Lunar Extension School will be able to see former University President Timothy Leary's signature without a telescope...
...SATURDAY, a 30-foot hand will reach into the sky over the anniversary-closing Stadium Celebration and sign the name of Class of 1754 member John Hancock in fireworks-illuminated letters big enough for Prince Charles to see without his spectacles. After, some will malign the excesses of Harvard's frothy sesquitercentenary, taking potshots at the fireworks and the mylar balloons that spanned the Charles last night...
...watch Pryor and his conscience playing out the conflicts that led him from freebasing to selfimmolation (all to the thump of Herbie Hancock's throbbing drum), the audience can't helped being shaken by the montage of emotion. Anyone with any heart will fall for this scene, regardless of how many times it's been done before because this time we know it really happened. If only Richard Pryor didn't have to hide behind Jo Jo Dancer...