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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Radcliffe Choral Society in Verdi's Requiem. On Saturday, watch John Lithgow lead a parade down Mass. Ave., grab lunch at a Mexican Picnic outside the Science Center and spend the rest of the afternoon wandering around campus during the Performance Fair. Sample the performers you've always meant to see, whether they're madrigals, Thai dancers, a barbershop quartet, the '02 Steppers, baton twirlers, or a one-man rock band. At night, choose among shows ranging from improv comedy to the Kuumba Singers' 29th Annual Spring Concert. The excitement continues into Sunday, until evening events mark the culmination...
...meant we got to have a two-week training cycle without the disruption of a race or a weigh-in," Fallows said. "That takes a lot of energy of you. Not having a weigh-in meant we could train all of Thursday, Friday and Saturday...
...18th century, when the gardens at Versailles were designed to include a small lawn, called the "tapis vert" and the popularity of Lancelot Brown's landscape stylings in Britain ("a new, elite style characterized by a mixture of meadows, water and trees, with grazing animals and graceful curves") meant that the lawn look ascended to primacy in the status hierarchy of the elite. A boom in the popularity of field-based sports such as tennis, cricket, lawn bowling and croquet abetted this rise. While lawn bowling and croquet proved faddish, quickly losing out to shuffleboard and flagpole-sitting amongst Oxbridge...
...itself--the desire actually to climb, not to have climbed or to have returned victorious, but to climb and so conquer the mountain step by step. The pleasure and the motivation was in the action, not in the outcome--or expected outcome. Perhaps that is what John Mallory meant by requesting that the body remain undisturbed--his father died in the process of taking the challenge he had chosen. Whether he had completed it or failed in the attempt is not as important as his having tried...
...18th century, when the gardens at Versailles were designed to include a small lawn, called the "tapis vert" and the popularity of Lancelot Brown's landscape stylings in Britain ("a new, elite style characterized by a mixture of meadows, water and trees, with grazing animals and graceful curves") meant that the lawn look ascended to primacy in the status hierarchy of the elite. A boom in the popularity of field-based sports such as tennis, cricket, lawn bowling and croquet abetted this rise. While lawn bowling and croquet proved faddish, quickly losing out to shuffleboard and flagpole-sitting amongst Oxbridge...