Word: welsh
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After a two-year hiatus, the Harvard College Freshman Theater Program is back with a new production of Emlyn Williams' The Corn is Green, a tale of a Welsh coal-mining town in the late 1800s. Although the story takes place in the nineteenth century, some of its main themes, such as class struggle, the plight of rural education and the role of women in a male-dominated world, are still quite relevant. At the center of the play is a young Welsh coal miner, Morgan Evans (Mwashuma Kamata Nyatta), who is taken under the wing of the local teacher...
...those who are less fortunate, ensuring that they will have a better life because of education. The fine cast is rounded off by Paul A. Gusmorino, III, as John Goronwy Jones, a man who lives between classes and is not entirely sure of his place in society: he is Welsh, yet highly educated, sympathizing with the Welsh coalmining students in Miss Moffat's school, as he can understand their plight and their language...
...brilliant, what are they? Welsh. That IS a selling point--how many Welsh indie-rock bands do you know? We know this because the title track International Velvet is a noisy thanksgiving that proclaims "Everyday I wake up, I thank the Lord I'm Welsh." The other verses go, "Deffrwch Cymry cysglyd gwlad y g,n" --which could be an elaboration on said religio-nationalistic gratitude, or, you know, something else altogether. Either way, the Welsh group is bent on going international, and in that velveteen, strangely alien way that European groups have of taking over...
...that should seduce the American Perspective. Catatonia will be aired, will be heard, will be bought, will be big, will be talked about amongst your Welsh pop aficionados, and go the way of The Cardigans...
...Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting, just released his latest novel, Filth...