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Word: hearings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...societies, do provide some alternative fare--but the audiences at these shows are small, if regular. Most people are probably not even aware of where the experimental theater is, despite its innovative and exciting work. To most people, Harvard theater means the "Pudding Show." Time and time again we hear "but we go to the theater for entertainment," spoken without the realization of what the demand for continually empty-headed entertainment implies about the culture and minds of the speakers. Perhaps the production of The Three Sisters on the mainstage will set a new trend for theater here. Failing that...

Author: By Simon Goldhill, | Title: An Instructive Evening Of Harvard Theater | 3/23/1979 | See Source »

Nahigian doesn't want to hear about the past. "I'm an optimist," he says, and as the new patriarch of the Harvard baseball heritage, he has the chance to redirect the disposition of the program in a positive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Man, New Attitude | 3/21/1979 | See Source »

...talking shop. And to see him--hear him--was to get the feeling that this baseball man will leave an impression much more lasting than spikes on a basepath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Man, New Attitude | 3/21/1979 | See Source »

...what you termed in your open letter of March 9 our "special mission" in "the discovery and transmission of knowledge." Now this notion will not surprise those radical critics of capitalism who have long argued the dependence of corporate profits on racism and imperialism. It is more surprising to hear this argument from more respectable sources, indeed from the very establishment itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Continuing Critique | 3/16/1979 | See Source »

...rarely receives the recognition that it deserves. It's sad that our culture doesn't offer more alternatives for musicians like Byard, but at least he has been able to eke some sort of livelihood out of noncommercial music. Tonight or any Wednesday you'll find it refreshing to hear a player who places musical integrity before the numerous advantages of "selling out" to the system...

Author: By Paul Davison, | Title: Two Shades of Piano | 3/15/1979 | See Source »

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