Word: sylvaine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...word `partnership' implies equal power," said Patrick Sylvain, a student at the Graduate School of Education. "But I see it as the U.S. moving in as the new power. I hope that the commitment to economic growth in Africa is a real one, and not a lopsided attempt to exploit African markets...
...Patrick Sylvain, a Haitian-born poet who now teaches in Cambridge, read six selected poems from his work. Among the poems were "Doobop," a tribute to the jazz career of Miles Davis; "Pawol Rasemblemant," a poem in Creole about the Haitian revolution; and "Crucifix," a description of a journalist's torture by the military regime. Manuel St. Victor '95 also recited a short, humorous poem about a failed courtship...
Robitaille scored on a power play at 19:06 of the second when the Capitals twice failed to clear the puck. It went off the sticks of Peter Bondra and Sylvain Cote before it bounced to John Cullen. The puck deflected off him, then off the shaft of Robitaille's stick and through Carey's legs...
...story is simple; there is no time for plot build-up. Daryl Downs (Pamela D. Meekins) is an exotic art dealer who happens to be black and who wants to buy a painting from Steel (Patrick Sylvain). Steel is an artist from Trinidad who repeatedly refers to his work as "his soul," implying a symbolic tie to his African heritage. When Steel refuses to "sell his soul away" for money, intra-racial conflict ensues between those espousing more practical and more philosophical responsess to prejudice...
...Sylvain, respectable and assured through out, fills Steel with an emotional charge that is entirely appropriate. When he declares that New York is a great place only for those who live "above it" in high-rises and office buildings, his voice and mannerisms speak a bitterness that is an thoughtful as it is sad. Sylvain's native accent pits him strongly against the upper class world that surrounds him, from the distinct professionalism of Daryl to the portrait of a former Winthrop House master on the back wall. And Matthew Gelbert, who has the important role of a white English...