Word: spiritedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The Rev. Eugene F. Rivers III, pastor of Boston's Azusa Christian Community church, is my kind of preacher: a former gang member with a Harvard education who has devoted himself to keeping ghetto kids out of trouble. He also believes it's his Christian duty to verbally slap the...
5 AHAB'S WIFE by Sena Jeter Naslund. While Melville's men were hasing whales in Moby Dick, what were the women up to? This novel's spirited heroine tells all and debunks the notion that 19th century American women were as "sweet and resigned" as Melville assumed.
10 JITNEY With all the fashionable cynicism around, August Wilson's warm-spirited embrace of his characters looks almost radical. This early work, given a "definitive" rewrite by Wilson and staged anew in Boston and Baltimore, immerses us in the day-to-day life of a gypsy cab company in...
If some of the characters overact, it is only to serve the greater cause of the comedy. Libby Shani '02 is radiant as Rita Altabel--spirited and rebellious and thoroughly blunt. She has fun with a part that lets her talk at length about the various penises she has encountered...
General meetings draw large numbers. The October meeting included "Singled Out," as well as a spirited discussion about the state of black romance on campus. Aaliyah N. Williams '02, lecture series chair, organized "The Changing Roles of Blacks in Sports: A Business Perspective," featuring executives from the professional baseball, football...