Word: tutu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...makings of a sandbox brawl: "I saw it first." "Well he's my best friend." Unfortunately, the voices were not those of toddlers, but of Harvard and Boston officials squabbling over the upcoming visit of South Africa's Nobel Prize winning Bishop Desmond Tutu...
...erupted last Friday, when a Boston Globe article quoted two Harvard officials criticizing Mayor Flynn's office for attempting to arrange a Boston appearance for the bishop on the same day he was scheduled to speak at Harvard. News Office stafler Marvin Hightower accused a Flynn aide of "deceiving" Tutu into believing Harvard had okayed a Fancuil Hall appearance and or trying to "steal the thunder" from the scheduled campus visit. Dr. S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation which had invited Tutu to Harvard, complained that it would "interfere" with the campus visit if Tutu spoke in Boston...
...South African Anglican Church had been looking for a new Bishop of Johannesburg to oversee its largest, mostly black, diocese, and the best-known candidate, obviously, was Bishop Desmond Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize. But last month the diocesan electors deadlocked over Tutu's antiapartheid militancy. As the debate flared, the national hierarchy intervened and, in secret session last week, twelve black and eleven white bishops chose Tutu. The bishop, who has led the activist South African Council of Churches since 1978, found a change of tasks entirely welcome. "The time is just right...
...TASK FOR TUTU...
UNFORTUNATELY, THE COMPANY stressed the dramatic aspects of the story, leaving less time and space for their usual exuberant exhibition of their command of dance. Instead, this recently premiered 'Creole Giselle' offers a provocative American historical portrayal of the classic white-tutu ballet...