Word: lincoln
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...more difficult architectural commission: design a museum devoted to the Holocaust that is also a fitting memorial to its victims -- and make it beautiful and decorous, and put it on the Mall in Washington, which has heretofore been reserved for stone commemorations of American goodness (George Washington, Abraham Lincoln) and American tragedy (Vietnam). And it's hard to imagine a more successful job of it than that managed by architect Freed, a partner of I.M. Pei's. With its exhibits designed by Ralph Appelbaum, Freed's museum is neither a pious, too-easy-to-take abstraction nor a meretriciously Disneyesque...
...First Amendment rights when it removed the materials arguing that the deportations did not constitute genocide.Officials at the Department of Education could not be reached for comment.One of the plaintiffs, Lawrence Aaronson, is a history teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. Another plaintiff, William Schechter, teaches at Lincoln-Sudbury High School.A local civil liberties lawyer, Harvey A. Silverglate, who is representing the plaintiffs in the suit, said he believes both sides should be included in discussions of the historical event.“The materials were arguing both sides of this historical dispute. Was this a genocide...
Lead by co-concertmasters J.Y. “Ariel” Jeong ’07 and Mathew J. Kan ’07, the HRO began the night with the solemn opening tones of the patriotic Lincoln Portrait. Copland’s music, which incorporates motifs from American folk songs and the spoken words of Abraham Lincoln, was narrated by Dean Gross, a former HRO member...
...Lincoln Portrait,” HRO demonstrated a facility in and good sense of dynamics, blend, and balance, especially during the alternating legato and staccato passages...
...piece. Of special note were the moving opening solo by bassoonist David L. Richmond ’06 and the resounding performance by the brass section, which effectively redeemed the section after their slightly pinched sound in their opening performance of Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait.” Despite some sparse flaws, however, the orchestra deserved its standing ovations...