Word: rent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Judgment is heralded, first, by the blowing of a ram's horn and, second, by "a still, small voice." This same image is used in First Kings when G-d speaks to Elijah. It reads: "And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind; and after the wind an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire...
...parade also offers evidence of the city's shift to the political left since its last celebration. Grass-roots activist groups like the Cambridge Eviction Free Zone and the Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee took part, a reminder of the stunning abolition of rent control--for decades a liberal rallying cry--which state voters handed to Cambridge residents...
...College owns the PBH building and leases it to PBHA rent-free. Harvard also pays the salaries of many PBH staffers and covers the organization's insurance...
...says Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles told him, "Given that [PBH] accepts Harvard's liability insurance and given that [PBH] lives in a Harvard building rent-free, [it] incurs and opens Harvard to a certain amount of risk in [its] activity...
...Rent may or may not have revolutionized the Broadway musical, but the form certainly is attracting some interesting playwrights. David Mamet is helping revamp the book for Randy Newman's Faust, which made its debut to much fanfare at California's La Jolla Playhouse last year and will resurface Sept. 30 at Chicago's Goodman Theatre. (Look for long, circular conversations between Faust and the devil.) Terrence McNally (Master Class) is tackling the book for Ragtime, a musical based on E.L. Doctorow's novel, which begins a pre-Broadway run in Toronto in December. And Britain's prolific Alan Ayckbourn...