Word: nelsons
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...split up almost every other day,” jokes bassist Peter O. Nelson ’04. Guitarist and lead singer Robert J. Dubbin ’04 adds, “It’s a collaborative effort now, though. As soon as I learned chords, we started in a new direction...
...game, when senior Mina Pell, as is her custom, watered the turf at her feet with her gatorade bottle prior to her penalty corner, and subsequently rocketed a pass to senior Jen Ahn, who calmly served it up to Maasdorp for the strike past Northeastern net minder Diana Nelson...
Dramatists began struggling with how to respond to Sept. 11 almost immediately. First came reverence--hushed expressions of grief like Anne Nelson's The Guys, a heartfelt work in which a reporter helps a New York City fire captain compose eulogies for his dead comrades. Next came irony--plays that focused mostly on the persistence of personal dramas in the face of this great big one. Exhibit A was Neil LaBute's The Mercy Seat, a caustic drama about a married man who is late for work at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11 because he's visiting...
Okrent adroitly retells the famous story of young Nelson Rockefeller's run-in with Diego Rivera, the Mexican artist whose mural for the lobby of the RCA Building--a dreadful kitsch effulgence, by the way--was demolished on Nelson's orders after Rivera slipped in a portrait of Lenin. Okrent is also supremely funny on the subject of S.L. (Roxy) Rothafel, creator of superabundant picture palaces along Broadway, those Moorish-boorish Odeons, who was the man chosen to guide development of Radio City Music Hall. Once he was in the job, fate teamed Roxy with Deskey--Donald Deskey, the great...
...Dante Nelson Balestracci, the 50-year-old father of one of the greatest football players in Harvard history, knew the calls weren’t for him. They were for his son, the 6’2, 235-pound middle linebacker who has changed the way teams play against Harvard since first stepping on the Stadium grass three autumns...