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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RIOTING that followed Chamorro's murder, one of the Managua offices the mobs attacked was Citibank of New York. Lest our true allegiances be forgotten, we should note that the Harvard Business School awarded Somoza with an honorary degree. Furthermore, while beans, corn and other key foodstuffs are in short supply in Nicaragua, significant amounts of the arable land in the nation are owned by U.S. corporations and used for cultivating cash crops, such as coffee, cotton and bananas. Most importantly, America must not forget the conclusion that then Congressman Edward Koch of New York reached last summer after...
Conant's other contributions were equally impressive. He was a chemist of some note and during his tenure as Harvard president served as a science advisor to the government, working on the atomic bomb project. In 1953 he resigned as Harvard president to become High Commissioner to the German Republic, and shortly thereafter took over as our first post-war ambassador to that country. During his later years, Conant was to have a profound influence on public-school education, publishing a series of recommendations that have affected the direction it has taken...
...commonplace to note that crises bring out the best in societies, and--in that sense at least--last week's extended snow emergency provided no surprises. Swift and effective action by state authorities, aided by cooperation all the way down the line of local government, helped prevent a difficult situation from becoming a catastrophe of monumental proportions. In the same way, the University's handling of the early days of the emergency prevented the situation at Harvard from deteriorating. All those involved rightly deserve high praise, not only for knowing how to face a terrible disaster, but also for realizing...
Dance logic is the way a dance makes sense and communicates its reason for being. When you sense the logic--and with the logic the connection between you and the artist--the grace of the movement is enough. When you don't see the logic you note: it's beautiful but lacks expression, or it's theory but lacks vitality...
Despite the program note describing its formal structure, the formal order of "Locus" is not what matters. What matters is the larger motion--the easy motion of the dance. The spontaneity set within a precise structure and the fluidity of the improvised play with movement much like ballet, only ballet seems to have its logic built into its technique, whereas the logic in Brown's work, and in modern dance generally, comes solely from the choreographer's decisions. Brown's dance--like all great dance--touches the same deep chord: a sense of ease, freedom, spontancity, openness...