Word: performance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...frail, white-bearded priest was exhausted from his long ordeal and looked far older than his 51 years. But Father Lawrence Martin Jenco managed to perform the necessary rituals with distinction last week as he made his way homeward after 564 days of captivity in Lebanon. His journey took him from Syria to West Germany, then Rome, London and Washington, and finally Chicago and suburban Joliet, Ill. "Chicago is a windy city, and I want to feel that wind again," he declared soon after his arrival at the big U.S. air base at Rhein-Main in Frankfurt, West Germany...
...Saturday night stadium celebration will be only the finale to Harvard's five-day 350th anniversary celebration. Earlier in the week folk singers Joan Baez, Bonnie Raitt '72 and Tom Rush '63 will perform an outdoor concert in Harvard Yard. And at the very start of the ceremonies, there will be a "floating birthday party" on the banks of the Charles River, complete with a 600-foot inflatable rainbow straddling the banks of the river...
Rush is one of a number of 350th celebrationfolk singers who played at the former Mt. AuburnSt. club while beginning the professional circuit.Baez, who will perform in the 350th concert withRaitt and other folk singers, also played at Club47 before she became famous...
Rush gave a preview yesterday of his September5 appearance, performing the folk song "Bandit ofBrazil." Rush added some levity to the pressconference, explaining that the song he was aboutto perform came from "a movie you will never seeon TV, no matter how late it gets...
About 700 Harvard people will participate inthe celebration, three-quarters of whom will beHarvard students. The concert will feature theHarvard band, the Kuumba singers and the HastyPudding Theatricals Club. Jazz singer FionaAnderson '88 will perform with Don Braden's Jazzband, a student group, and with the Boston Pops.Concluding the gala event, fireworks will bedropped from a helicopter above the stadium...