Word: oakes
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Thursday, April 14, through Saturday, April 16. “Dancers’ Viewpointe V.” Features new works commissioned by the Harvard Dance Program, and selected student works. Professional choreographers include Susan Shields, former member, White Oak Dance Project; Michael Foley, former member, Sean Curran Dance Company; Elizabeth Bergmann, director, Dance Program, OFA; and Boston choreographer Brenda Divelbliss. 8 p.m., Rieman Center, Radcliffe Yard. $10, students/senior citizens, $8. Tickets available at Harvard Box Office...
Naked of walls and roof, the frame of foot-thick oak timbers has the precise, angular grace of a Victorian railway bridge. It is bound by hand-hewn pegs to a 20-ft. by 30-ft. rectangle. Inside this architectonic web freshly spun along the rear of the Bakers' blueberry-shingled farm house, Babcock, 50, in red plaid shirt and worn, blue work pants, ministers to a most ungraceful tangle of rope and wood...
...this time, as the men throw their weight against the capstan arm, the rope tightens. Sweat and pine sap scent the air. Slowly, majestically, the triangle of oak swings skyward, hesitates, then settles gracefully on its mount 23 ft. above...
...rafters of oak and white pine that predate the Constitution, Babcock reads colonial minidramas. He describes his discoveries with delight: stalls on worn threshing floors that mark a farmer's shift from wheat to cattle; scrawled symbols on a rafter commemorating a son who moved his father's barn; boards, sealing the huge doors of a cavernous Dutch barn, that reveal the date of its sale to a German, who then cut smaller doors...
Compensation: Under threat of public foreclosure, make all the Final Clubs change their animal names into plant names. Or protozoa, but nothing as cool as archaebacteria. And force the Oak to rename itself the Blue-Footed Booby. Humiliation is the only thing that works on these kids...