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ADVOCATE/GAMUT POETRY READING. The Gamut and the Harvard Advocate present a poetry reading featuring Sarah K. Burke ’05, Anton V. Yakolev ’03, Caitlin E. Barrett ’03, Catherine V. Moore ’05, Kamila M. Lis ’04, Leslie Jamison ’04, Kevin B. Holden ’05, Jennifer L. Nelson ’03, and Lily L. Brown ’04. Feb. 25, 9 p.m., Adams House library...
...when Look Out for Your Faces will be performed again in Russia. Last week Moscow was buzzing with speculation on which of the show's skits, poems and songs had offended the Central Committee. Among the possibilities: > In one skit, performers hold up letters spelling out A luna kamila, a palindrome meaning "The moon has vanished." An official, hypersensitive about the Soviet failure to get a man on the moon first, might have seen this as a suggestion that the moon had vanished to the Americans. But Voznesensky also includes the line, "They stepped on its soul with dirty...
...born in 1854 in Moravia, now part of Czechoslovakia. He studied music in the town of Brno, married there (unhappily), suffered through the early death of his two children, and enjoyed no major success as a composer until he was 60. About that time, he fell in love with Kamila Stössl, 38 years his junior and the wife of an antique dealer. The affair was apparently platonic; nonetheless, it brought the composer an astonishingly productive second youth. From the time of his meeting with Kamila, his music surged with an energy and abundance of imagination barely suggested...