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...With Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes and the Fall of Old Mexico (Simon and Schuster; 812 pages; $30), Lord Thomas, author of what is arguably the finest study in English of the Spanish Civil War, has taken the heady risk of challenging a landmark of 19th century American historiography: William H. Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843). Thomas' account is richer in detail than Prescott's, more balanced in its assessment of the Mexica (pronounced mesheeca; the author insists that this is a more authentic name for the conquered people than Aztec). But Prescott's narrative has a grace...
Sunday night the band arrived at Prescott street to find Guy waiting for us. He was engrossed in the seating chart he had just constructed, busy connecting names and faces. Guy's music is not written out according to instrument; instead, he writes parts for individual musicians in his own outfit, The London Jazz Composers' Orchestra. So every member of the Harvard Jazz Band was given a part previously written for some musician thousands of miles away; I was Peter...
...singing, screaming, growling, roaring, and whinnying through my sax. I felt at once like a liberated women-mental patient-slave-stresscase soul. I was jogged back to reality, out of Guy's "free space" and back into the Prescott Street band room, by my own sweat and shaking body. When it was all over, I looked around and saw everyone awed and spent...
Four engines blocked off Prescott St. between Harvard St. and Broadway last night at about 9:10 p.m., but despite a sounding alarm, a search of the building revealed no smoke, according to Deputy Chief William Rose...
Some residents of Greenough and Hurlbut Halls, both located on Prescott Street, gathered outside to investigate. "The whole thing was kind of anti-climatic, but it beat the hell out of studying," said Luke D. Moland '97, a Greenough resident...