Word: journey
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Pols and Nabobs. On the other hand, one of the blessings of repertory is the second chance. And the third chance. In May, two more big-name migratory workers, José Ferrer and Kate Reid, will come to the Shubert in Long Day's Journey into Night, to be followed by Eva Marie Saint and Fritz Weaver in Candida. Recalling that he was a charter member of earlier Greater Boston repertory companies?the Group 20 Players of Wellesley and the Cambridge Drama Festival?Weaver now jokes about writing a book called Festivals I Have Opened and Closed...
...entertainment-have traditionally been used by minorities to fight their way out of the ghettos and into the mainstream of American society. In their turn, Irish, Jewish and Italian athletes and entertainers fought, ran, sang and joked their way into a society previously closed to them. The same journey is now being undertaken by blacks. Ironically, the very success of black sports stars has served to focus aspirations in the black community on athletics, a trend that social scientists-as well as thoughtful black athletes-feel is limiting the potential of many young blacks. Says Sociologist Corrie Hope of Morehouse...
Twice a week I have an afternoon Government class at 2 Divinity Avenue, and in those last two weeks of March, I missed not a one. This part of the journey--from the Fogg past the GSAS and onto Divinity Ave.--I had affectionately termed Heart Attack Hill. Which is what anyone who saw and knew me got when they spotted my matching tee-shirt, gym shorts and Rene LaCoste sweat socks...
...practically home free, but not quite. It remained for spring vacation--and a few sprints on the Clearwater beach (I had to get that in here)--before I dared venture on the final leg of this arduous journey...
Boozy Sessions. Schubert's Songs is not a how-to-do-it book, although musicians might profit from the author's insight. In discussing the song cycle Die Winterreise (Winter Journey), that stark "chain of variations on the theme of grief," the author notes a brightening of atmosphere brought about by a transition from the minor to major key. Singers beware, he warns: "Things seem less desperate-but Schubert is not finished yet. By reverting to the acerbity of the original minor mode during the postlude, he rules out any possibility of self-indulgence or sentimental self-pity...