Word: reunions
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...former associate director of the Harvard Alumni Association, Koivumaki oversaw all aspects of alumni services not connected with fundraising. His move to the Law School coincides with the integration of the Reunions Program, previously a separate operation, into the Law School's alumni association. He will work with the Reunion Program's director, Donna M. Chiozzi, to strengthen the local associations across the country and in Europe and increase student involvement in alumni programs...
Perhaps the most striking symbol of Britain's impact came in the West End opening last week of Follies, not so much a revival as a complete reconsideration of the 1971 Stephen Sondheim musical, set at a reunion of performers of Ziegfeld-style spectacles. The original version won five Tony Awards but lost nearly all its then awesome $800,000 investment, and save for a 1985 Lincoln Center concert version, there has been no revival. The $3 million-plus London production opened to bigger advance sales than Cats, Les Miserables or the current hottest ticket, Phantom of the Opera, according...
...musicals, the West End offers one surprise delight that is, rather, a play with music. Up on the Roof is a British cousin to The Big Chill, an unpretentious glimpse of the evolving bond among five friends at college graduation in 1975, a wedding in 1980 and a tenth reunion. They meet as members of an a cappella rock group and often break into semi-oldies song: the sweet, sentimental arrangements, unaccompanied by a band and therefore a realistic part of the action, aptly comment on their changing lives. The appealing cast, which helped write the show in improvisations, achieves...
George Kennan, the prescient diplomat who formulated the U.S. doctrine of containment shortly after the end of World War II, ruminated at a reunion of State Department planners about how these global changes have made the East- West ideological struggle less relevant to how the world is ordered. Says Kennan, who in recent years has adopted a more benign view of the Soviet Union: "The whole principle of containment as that term was conceived when it was used by me back in 1946 is almost entirely irrelevant to the problems we and the rest of the civilized world face today...
...previous evening John Paul had held a poignant reunion in Gdansk with Lech Walesa, the electrician who gained worldwide fame as Solidarity's founder. Now a "private citizen" in the government's eyes, an obviously elated Walesa called his 35-minute session with the Pope "great" and said, "We were in a place we know, and we could just be ourselves." At Warsaw's insistence, the meeting was kept off John Paul's official agenda...