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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...renaissance of sorts, it is still difficult for new groups to conduct the thorough public relations campaigns and secure the large performance halls necessary to establish a devoted audience following. For this reason dance troupes have, for the past several years, collaborated in dance festivals featuring a few name companies interspersed among local and experimental troupes. The most famous such festival, New York Dance Umbrella, has used groups like Merce Cunningham and Martha Graham as its "anchor" companies; for the most part, these festivals have so far been unsuccessful in Boston...

Author: By Michael E. Silver, | Title: Dancing the Night Away | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

This newest burst of creative activity at Woodstock would seem to lend support to those, from Coleridge to Castaneda, who believe that nature's creative force springs from very specific spots on earth. Some forty miles north of the actual site of the festival that burnt its name onto the map, Woodstock might be any sleepy little town at the base of the Catskills, but for the amazing variety of artistic spirits that seem to gravitate there. The tourists shops and gaudy "art" galleries that sprang up at the end of the 60's (actually a few years earlier, when...

Author: By Paul Davison, | Title: Mingus at Eight | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

Brian S. Petrovek '77, co-director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Fund, said yesterday he would meet with class committee members today to work out details of such a fund--including how to meet the requirement that a scholarship fund must have $5000 already raised in its name before it can become official...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Seniors Decide to Allow Gifts to Special Biko Fund | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

FELIX MALDONADO woke up one morning to find he lost his face and name. Or rather, Felix Maldonado woke up one morning and discovered he had undergone plastic surgery and been given an alias. All because he had failed in an assassination plot on Mexico's president's life--an act he had performed against his will...

Author: By Judith E. Matloff, | Title: The Day of the Hydra | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

...Carter's visit to Mexico to negotiate oil deals. Fuentes would have smiled at the results of the talks. If the author had written a sequel to The Hydra Head at that point, maybe he would have had Felix Maldonado wake up to find he had regained his original name, or perhaps an ear or a nostril...

Author: By Judith E. Matloff, | Title: The Day of the Hydra | 4/19/1979 | See Source »

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