Word: hotly
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Gasser would have applied to drama schools this year, but all of the auditions were held the week her thesis was due. She couldn't do both at the same time and might audition next year. Freshman year her first role was in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, then she went on to The Glass Menagerie. "I was playing old Southern ladies all freshman year." The Harvard, Massachusetts, native is ending her acting career at Harvard playing Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire. In between she has played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and has appeared in Richard...
Rugo was beaten on a hot and humid spring evening during spring reading period 35 years ago. That night, police arrested 28 Harvard students in what has become known as the Pogo Riot, fought in the name of the famous 'possum from Okeefenokee Swamp in Florida who was eliciting a groundswell of grassroots support--in Harvard Square, at least-for election to the presidency of the United States of America...
...hot number" coming out of MIT at the age 27,the noted Black conservative was courted byseveral schools before he accepted an assistantprofessorship at Northwestern University'seconomics department, said Robert Eisner, chairmanof the department at the time...
What accounted for the Met's reluctance to take him on? Questions of casting and contracts fascinate and frustrate opera fans, who are usually well aware of hot new reputations in Europe. One reason may be that the company already had two fine American basses in James Morris and Paul Plishka; another is that Artistic Director James Levine tends to favor his own discoveries. There was also the perceived stigma of the City Opera; the two companies may be geographical neighbors, but they are artistic strangers. "There were lots of theories," notes Ramey. "One of them was that...
...first decade of occupation, only about 5,000 hardy Israelis settled in the hot, dusty Jordan Valley. But in 1977, when the right-wing Likud bloc came to power, the pace accelerated because the Likud regarded settlement as a means of holding on to the land forever. Today nearly 60,000 Jews live in the West Bank, though 80% of them are city people who have been lured by cheap housing and tax breaks to move into new developments only a few miles from Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Probably few of the 12,000 residents of Ma'ale Adumim...