Word: pasts
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...response of many people on campus has been that the gay, lesbian and bisexual community should stop causing trouble and let everyone return to the `peaceful co-existence' that the entire Harvard community shared before this series of incidents. But the lesson of the past few weeks should be that that peace was only a comfortable illusion for those students who feel little connection to or sympathy for the gay community...
...past few weeks, then, have shown the deplorable limits of tolerance on this campus. Gay students should be treated the same as any other Harvard student. They should be able to discuss their sexual identity, walk arm-in-arm in public and ask someone of the same sex to dance. If this community of presumably enlightened students cannot overcome the oppressive conventions of society, how will the society at large ever be able to change...
...might be Abbott or Balanchine. "We have a wonderful company," he says. "They are devoted to the show and to each other and to the material, and I am touched and astounded by their capacity." He is already a bit sad that this long voyage into his shining past and Broadway's iffy future is completed. "I'm like a cruise director," he says. "I organize the trip and the entertainment and the luggage. Then everybody gets on the ship, and it sails off without me. After a show opens, a chasm opens before me. My relationships with 70 people...
Many popular contenders failed to get past the electoral-district gatherings. Vitali Korotich, editor of the popular weekly magazine Ogonyok, walked out of a seven-hour session in Pravda's House of Culture, charging that the delegates had been stacked and that the meeting was being manipulated by the chairman. Two weeks ago, Andrei Sakharov withdrew his candidacy by publishing a short announcement in a Moscow newspaper saying he would run only as a representative of the Academy of Sciences, which turned him down as a candidate last month...
...requisite razzmatazz -- his parts in Forum and Fiddler were played by Zero Mostel -- but lacks the star attribute of effortless ease. Yet if Robbins has not unearthed the treasure trove that many hoped for, he still offers a richly illuminated manuscript from the book of Broadway's beloved past...