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Shaughnessy read both from her book and her recent, unpublished work. I confess that although what I read of her poetry frustrated me before the reading, as the reading progressed I become more of a fan. As soon as she stepped up to the podium, she giggled something about nervousness, and that nervousness manifested itself between poems in humorous interjections. They were therapeutic, I suppose. “I never realized this podium was so technological—it has all these clocks and…it’s kind of distracting...
...Principal guest conductor Bernard Haitink directed with both ease and authority. His precise baton yielded wonderful control, yet there was never a sense of stiffness or tension. His elegant podium manner was only further complemented by the sound he received from the orchestra. The Tanglewood Festival Chorus, directed by John Oliver, sounded alternately warm and earthy in the right moments (such as the opening), although perhaps not “heavenly” enough for the beginning and end of the last-movement setting of Psalm 150, with its plaintive Alleluia’s. Stravinsky reveals in this movement...
...standing at the podium in Sanders Theatre, she talked about race. The April 3 lecture, the fifth in the Radcliffe’s Inaugural series, was entitled, “‘Goodbye to All That’”: Race, Surrogacy and Farewell,” and drew a constellation of academic superstars from Harvard’s Afro-American Studies and English departments to the audience. University President and English Professor Neil L. Rudenstine procured a seat in the front row to listen to Morrison weave her spell...
...rebels postponed their return to the southern state of Chiapas after Congress agreed to hear their case. Earlier in the week the rebel group prepared to leave Mexico City after being refused a platform in the capital's legislative chambers. Congress then invited the rebels to speak from the podium. "The door to dialogue is beginning to open," said rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos. But he rejected an offer to meet with President Vicente Fox, saying the government had not met demands for peace talks, including the release of prisoners and the closure of miltary bases in Chiapas...
...Whenever the Oscars go to commercial break, the party's organizer, Norby Walters, gets up to the ballroom podium and talks up the cause or introduces celebrities to polite applause. "Psycho" star Janet Leigh gets a big "oooh...