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During the service, the congregation sang the hymns "Our God, Our Help in Ages Past," "Dear Lord and Father of Mankind" and "My Country, 'Tis of Thee." The Commencement Choir sang Bach's "Dona Nobis Pacem" and Thompson's "Alleluia...
...dismayed, but not surprised, by President Neil L. Rudenstine's recent recommendation concerning ROTC ("Report Upholds ROTC Tis, But Without Direct Funding," news story, Dec. 1). Using alumni contributions to pay the ROTC for merely continues the administration's history of avoiding and glossing over trouble-some issues. Rudenstine postponed his decision for ever four years while Harvard's students were forced to help fund a program that discriminates against the gay, lesbian, and bisexual members of its community...
...TIS THE SEASON...
...Tis now the season to stand in the Coop, Urban Outfitters, Wordsworth Abridged or some other card-vending establishment and make some decisions...
...speech is subjected to repeated looping (or "phasing," to use Reich's term) and then musically claborated. Daugherty, in the anti-establishment political tradition of Reich's earlier work, samples excerpts from Hoover's speeches and parodies them through his musical setting the violins simulate police sirens; "My Country, "Tis of Thee" and "The Star-Spangled Banner" are cast in ironic dissonance; the "donkey" momement from Saint-Saens's "Carnival of the Animals" is quoted...