Word: matthew
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Harvard is not alone in its tribute to Bach. On March 21, Bach's actual birthday, St. Matthew's Passion, one of his major works, was broadcast worldwide from Leipzig, the city where Bach spent most of his life. A number of other universities have also celebrated Bach's birth, but mostly with one-day celebrations...
...1930s in a lower-middle- class Jewish household much like his own. It won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award as best play, and was justly likened to Ah, Wilderness! and Our Town as a nostalgic celebration of lost family virtues. The show also made a star of Matthew Broderick; he won a Tony as the narrator, the precocious Eugene Morris Jerome, whose wry journal entries the script purported...
...memorialized outside the Thomaskirche by both a full-length statue and, not far from the church, a bust dedicated by Felix Mendelssohn. Genius pays homage to even greater genius: it was the romantic Mendelssohn, a Christianized Jew, who in 1829 revived Bach's greatest religious work, the towering St. Matthew Passion, and in so doing unwittingly canonized...
...MANY HIGH SCHOOL wrestlers recognize their own mortality during their senior year? They are painfully abundant in the recent movie Vision Quest. Louden Swain (Matthew Modine), concluding that you are born and then you die, decides to starve himself and train hard enough to drop two weight divisions and take on the most feared wrestler in the state, Brian Shute, as his grand fling into the nothingness that awaits him. Louden is a jock going for the gusto, a nihilist wrestling for a Michelob Light...
...sardonic freezeniks who introduced and ran the0 referendum, John F. Tomlinson '87 and Matthew P. Cohn '87, acknowledged early on that they weren't totally serious about the thing. "Me and Matt were just sitting around in House Committee, and we said as a joke, 'Why don't we declare [Adams House] a nuclear-free zone?'" Tomlinson explained. "I think it's pretty funny--it's an opportunity to make a political statement and be a little humorous at the same time," added his activist cohort Cohn...