Word: lasting
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...Harvard's artistic community, text is still its primary focus. A special Black Arts issue, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the founding of Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department will supplement the usual four issues per year, which includes the popular Annual Contest Issue in the spring. For "The Last Issue," a look at beginnings, endings, new starts and redemption, to be published in December, submissions will still be considered based on quality, but with an eye to how well work fits this theme. The Advocate publishes fiction, poetry, art, and photography, as well as an increasingly healthy features section...
...albatros is another new publication at Harvard. First published last year, it is a forum for the French-speaking community at Harvard. The magazine hopes to demonstrate the diversity of Harvard's French students and the possibilities of French poetry, fiction and essays. L'albatros also accepts photography and art. Submit at the Woodberry Poetry Room, the Romance Languages Department or email either block@fas or Kimberly Pope at pope@fas. Submissions accepted from students of all schools of the University...
...America, the first nation to struggle against colonialism and win now remains as the last bastion holding on to colonies," he added...
...make it to the stage, you can bet that it shouldn't have made it there at all. But such ominous artistic omens didn't prevent Producing Director Peter Altman of the Huntington Theatre Company from adapting Nobel-prize winning author Edwin O'Connor's 1956 novel, The Last Hurrah, into a theatrical event. Speckled with scheming politicos, snooty aristocrats and down-to-earth Irish-American folk, O'Connor's novel, a sweeping panorama of '50s Boston political scene, seemed a perfect recipe for dramatic success, right? Wrong...
...zeal to promote Boston-themed plays, Altman thought he found an easy answer in the colorful Last Hurrah, the notorious parody of four-time Boston mayor James Michael Curley's last-ditch bid for re-election. What he got, however, was an unreasonably large and unmanageable cast of characters, many of whom are demoted to ornamental, cardboard cut-out status in the three-hour world of the theatre. There's Amos Force (Keith Perry), the conservative Yankee who will do whatever it takes to see the Irish mayor lose; Francis Jr. (John P. Arnold), the mayor's playboy, finger-snapping...