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...most eagerly anticipated, and potentially incendiary, musical premiere of the year: an opera about Richard Nixon's landmark visit to the People's Republic of China that also includes Pat Nixon, Henry Kissinger, Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai among its cast of characters. Although it is sure to provoke strong emotions and conflicting opinions, Nixon in China, currently on display at the Houston Grand Opera, is the most important new opera since Philip Glass gave voice to Mohandas Gandhi in Satyagraha seven years...
...that's why Mt. Auburn cemetery, on the Cambridge-Watertown line, is such a valuable resource around this time. Mt. Auburn is an historical landmark as the first-ever `garden' cemetery in the United States and houses the graves of some of the most respected men and women of America...
...Cambridge landmark was bought by Harvard Real Estate in September 1979 for $750,000. Since then it has been used for a parking lot and a rent-a-car agency. Harvard officials said they have had no plans to develop the site...
...Poetry Festival (the seventh to date) attracts nearly a hundred participants for a night and a day of commemorative talk. The opening session, at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Wheeling, finds Wright's widow quietly reading from his letters and Wright Biographer Peter Stitt delivering several of the landmark poems in a clipped, dry, ironic voice, praising the poet's deft humor and his bottomless affection for "the unnamed poor...
Carr's piece, entitled "S. End landmark and an unwanted future neighbor," was about a gay bar that is trying to move across the street from Foley's--apparently one of Carr's favorite "blue-collar" drinking spots. He begins his gay-bashing by noting that Chaps--the name of the proposed bar--may hold 1200 people while Foley's can hold only 100. "If this goes through," he writes, "they are going to have us outnumbered, in our own neighborhood, by at least a 10-1 margin." (Emphasis Carr...