Word: po
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...Everyman of the segregated pre-World War II rural South: semiliterate, marginally employed, the victim of numerous acts of offhand racism. He inhabits a blues-toned, all-black world of juke joints, odd jobs and broken people wrestling with the same dilemma: "If all you got is two po'k chops an' ten chirren, what you gonna do?" The answer: improvise and live with the consequences...
BORN: Toronto, Canada (date NR) EDUCATION: U of Toronto, B.A., 1964, M.A., 1968 FAMILY: NR RELIGION: NR MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Economic designer; electronic news technician POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: PO Box 117, Harvard Square Station, Cambridge...
...Countess is heart-broken, the Count is imperious, Cherubino is perpetually lovesick. Almost without exception, this cast handles the famous arias beautifully Saccente has a strong voice and stage presence, and none of Figaro's comic nuances escape him; he is excellent in the patter of 'Aprite un po, Figaro's attack on female infidelity, and in the touching final duet with Susanna. Benaim, as the Count, has perhaps the most pleasing voice in the cast, combining power and a dark, rich tone. Brown has a pretty voice, well equipped for Cherubino's charming arias, and brilliant comic instincts...
...Loker, Harvard has sought the answer to a whole range of every student's most urgent dilemmas: Where to get that late-night low-fat fro-yo on the eve of that big mid-term in po-mo fopo? Where to go when you crave that cool Seattle style but don't want to walk the two blocks to Starbucks? Or--and this is the clincher--where to find a nice friendly place in otherwise unfriendly Cambridge to relax and share some good times with other friendly Harvard students? Welcome to SUNY Cambridge...
...several ways. It will be administered by a state university. The business contri bu tions presumably will be tax-de ductible. Above all, the Oseola McCarty Scholarship Fund--and in deed all private, so-called voluntary affirmative action--causes the govern ment to be racially biased in its po l icy toward private discrimination. The government would quickly step in to stop even a sweet old lady from setting up a whites-only scholarship fund. That would clearly violate about 18 laws, including the 1964 Civil Rights Act. So those who insist that the 1964 act--and civil rights principles...