Word: projects
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says her efforts to reduce pollution led naturally to the battle against the Westway Project, which she describes as "spending billions of dollars to build a highway and real estate in a precious area of the Hudson...
...creative forces in Harvard theater tried to break down the barriers between audiences and performers. Senior Randy Weiner's troupe Project Space Six (PSS) toured Winthrop House one night, knocking on doors and performing a short play in people's common rooms. PSS drew raves for its rap musical, The Gang's New Threads, which was really The Emperor's New Clothes updated to critique present-day fashion trends in Harvard Square. It was hip, it was funny, it was even socially relevant--and the all-original raps, produced in dorm-room jam sessions, were fresh...
...teamed up for one memorable project that brought most of the Harvard artistic community--and its observers--together for a single event. The "Sea Monkeys Sideshow" turned the whole Carpenter Center into a piece of performance art for an evening. Actors, storytellers, musicians, directors, dancers, painters and intrigued onlookers participated in the variety of peripatetic performances. In one room, you could watch a pianist, a trumpeter, a dancer and a muralist all creating and improvising at once--and you could even pick up a paintbrush and join in yourself, on the adjacent wall. Even the ideas that didn't work...
Initial impressions aside, the foursome quickly discovered that they shared much in common. "We were Harvard's ultimate social engineering project. The number of connections of interests you can draw between us is incredible," Martin says...
...powers that be in the Freshman Dean's Office did indeed make a special project of Wigglesworth A-11, four years later, their creation is still functioning smoothly. Listening to the four students' friendly, nostalgic banter, one is struck by the degree to which each feels comfortable with his place within the group. They exemplify the notion that one is only free to be an individual within a community...