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...conference begins tonight, when Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-MA) and future IOP former governor of Pennsylvania, former Governor of Pennsylvania, will make opening remarks in the K-School's Public Affairs Forum...

Author: By Teresa A. Mullin, | Title: IOP Conference to Begin Anniversary Celebration | 5/8/1987 | See Source »

Cellist Yo Yo Ma, at the ripe old age of thirty-some-odd years, is already considered one of the greats of the century. Leonard Bernstein, an acclaimed Mahler conductor, recently inaugurated a cycle of that composer's symphonies. Conductor Andre Previn's Rachmaninoff, it is widely said, is the most sumptuous and melancholy. And the list goes...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: Stop, Look and Liszten | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...search of major international disasters. The rest of the time I spend trying to think of gimmicks for the Crimson Ed page. My best idea was to have a contest where the reader who sent in the most drugs (Rutger Fury, c/o Harvard Crimson, 14 Plympton St., Cambridge, MA 02138) would...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Taking the Town | 4/18/1987 | See Source »

August Wilson's first commercially produced work, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, ran more than eight months on Broadway, won the 1985 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play and marked the emergence of a substantial new voice for the American theater. A self-taught man who dropped out of school in the ninth grade, Wilson, 41, announced ambitions for a cycle of ten plays meant to reveal black life in each decade of this century. Ma Rainey depicted the self- imposed racial isolation of a 1920s blues singer. His second play to reach Broadway, Fences, which opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Righteous In His Own Backyard FENCES | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...explosive violence that flows from his characters and from the warping effect racism has had upon them. Humiliated in the larger world, these people fiercely guard their dignity close to home. Defeated by enemies too distant to see, they lash out at their own kind -- a colleague in Ma Rainey, a son in Fences. These confrontations can seem like old-fashioned melodrama in comparison with the plotless minimalism now in vogue. But Wilson has the weight of history on his side. If Troy Maxson turns tyrant, betraying his wife with a younger woman and blasting his son's chances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Righteous In His Own Backyard FENCES | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

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