Search Details

Word: mis (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Your "Cultural Festival Excludes Asian Christian Group," (News, Feb. 12) may have had the negative effect of diminishing the value of our annual festival and undermining the efforts of many Harvard undergraduates who worked diligently to make this event a success. Furthermore, the opinion piece on "The Mis-Education of Cultural Rhythms" (Feb. 24) demonstrates a limited understanding of the festival and its mission, and diminishes the successful work of students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cultural Rhythms Deserves Community Support | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

Your "Cultural Festival Excludes Asian Christian Group," (News, Feb. 12) may have had the negative effect of diminishing the value of our annual festival and undermining the efforts of many Harvard undergraduates who worked diligently to make this event a success. Furthermore, the opinion piece on "The Mis-Education of Cultural Rhythms" (Feb. 24) demonstrates a limited understanding of the festival and its mission, and diminishes the successful work of students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...show progresses generally without delay, only pausing for the host to mis-pronounce the name of the next act (and, on a rare occasion, read a sentence about it). However, without a significant descriptive or educational component, the show gives the audience few tools to make appropriate meaning of what's happening on stage. For much of the show, we watched performers in costumes dance "traditional" programs that could be centuries--or weeks--old. We had no way to know. Such ignorance is dangerous because without context we are likely to conflate the students' portrayal of their culture's historical...

Author: By Geoffrey A. Fowler and Kamil E. Redmond, S | Title: The Miseducation of Cultural Rhythms | 2/24/1999 | See Source »

...show progresses generally without delay, only pausing for the host to mis-pronounce the name of the next act (and, on a rare occasion, read a sentence about it). However, without a significant descriptive or educational component, the show gives the audience few tools to make appropriate meaning of what's happening on stage. For much of the show, we watched performers in costumes dance "traditional" programs that could be centuries--or weeks--old. We had no way to know. Such ignorance is dangerous because without context we are likely to conflate the students' portrayal of their culture's historical...

Author: By Kamil E. Redmond, | Title: The Mis-Education of Cultural Rhythms | 2/24/1999 | See Source »

...series of satirical revues that skewer musical theater. This latest edition is one of his sharpest yet. Here, a protean cast of four derides Disney's Lion King in The Circle of Mice. Footloose? Screwloose. Best of all is Alessandrini's new take on the decade-old Les Mis, which offers up dread-inspiring thoughts in the number Ten Years More. Even Victor Hugo would chuckle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Forbidden Broadway Cleans Up Its Act | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Previous | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | Next