Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first glance, Johnny D's Uptown Restaurant & Music Club might be aptly dubbed a modern-day Globe theater. The privileged sit in posh faux-leather booths dining on Cajun delicacies while the rest are left standing like corralled groundlings demarcated by signs that separate the standing from the sitting (so that the seated "patricians" are able to see without over-zealous standers-by encroaching on their line-of-sight). Or perhaps it is only when the guitarist Bill Frisell is playing that this cozy Davis Square establishment deserves such a comparison--the manager assures me that the place is usually...
...coming. Jesus Christ Superstar is. Harvard theater is finally bringing him to the mainstage and everybody is excited about it. But at the moment, this preliminary enthusiasm is riding only on what we know about the show, not this one. A modern treatment of the Passion of Christ demands some measure of experimentation and even controversy, but investigative research has managed to unearth only one word from the producers: visceral. This season's production brings together an incredible amount of raw talent, theatrical experience and pure, unadulterated enthusiasm--the perfect elements for making the sort of ground-breaking theatrical experience...
...specifically in Harvard historyoto be a unique American pastime. Always somewhat behind the scenes, this simultaneously awe-inspiring and repulsive act made you cringe in "A Fish Called Wanda" and probably yak on your lei at the Owl Luau. But in fleshing out the vague tradition invoked by these modern-day incidents, the fact is: Our experience constitutes the wriggling tail end of an intensely popular fad of the late 1930s...
Gloria Steinem, co-founder of Ms. Magazine and one of the most prominent modern feminists, explored the connections between religion and gender politics at the Institute of Politics on Saturday...
...Godliness is present in women, men, and in all living things," she said. Modern-day women must "relieve men from the impossible soul-burden of being godlike...