Word: presented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprised to learn that the creation of an autonomous Afro-American Studies Department has been one major demand of striking Harvard students in 1969. More surprising than the subsequent granting of the demand is that, after ten years, the department has come full circle: a visiting committee is at present judging its viability as a department, and presenting recommendations on the status of the department to the Board of Overseers...
...however, the major problem facing the department is the acquisition of tenured faculty. At present, the department has only "one and one-half" tenured faculty. The chairman, Eileen Southern, is currently on leave in Europe; Ewart Guinier '33, the department's first chairman, is semi-retired, and teaches only half-time. The major roadblock, as the department's supporters see it, is the University's policy that those awarded tenure in Afro-Am must also be tenured in another field of concentration. Finding an expert in two fields, one of them Afro-American Studies, is no easy business. President...
...play, so he sobs a lot. Shannon Gaughan's Juliet is only slightly better; she varies the noises emanating from the stage by introducing several whines. They do this production in Shirley Wilber as Juliet's nurse seems to be the only performer with some sense of how to present this play. Romeo and Juliet argues for the power of words to create something out of nothing, but these performers don't pay their lines enough attention to give Shakespeare's words a chance...
...director read and re-read material on King Arthur and the Round Table, including The Once and Future King, which was Lerner's immediate source for the musical. As a result, Sakas will present a Camelot stressing the figure of the king in the dual guises of man and monarch. Although turning points in the show come when Arthur must choose between his desires and his ideals, Sakas believes Arthur's fate, like that of most tragic heroes is already determined at the opening of the play. Such a view reinforces the interpretation of Camelot as a musical tragedy...
Just like when TV networks pit recent movies against Monday Night Football, this effluence of jazz activity will force some hard and painful decisions. Close to home, Jonathan Swift's is hosting two events of particular interest this week. Sunday and Monday they will present Sun Ra and his Intergalactic Arkestra, a happening by any standard. Sun Ra is simply outrageous; his age and background are unclear, but he wanders around our planet saying things like: The intergalactic music in its present phase of presentation will be correlative to the key synopsis of the past and to the uncharted multipotential...