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...Emily J. Wood '97, the director of Wednesday's An Evening of Bardolatry, explained to her rapt audience in an introductory speech, April 23rd was a significant day in the life of William Shakespeare: it's both the day on which we think he entered the world in 1564, and the date on which we know he left it in 1616. This year, Wood decided to borrow an idea from a community theater troupe in her home town and stage a commemorative evening of Shakespeare here at Harvard...
Kindheartedness isn't the most renowned idiosyncrasy of New York City cabdrivers, but Placido Domingo lucked out when he left his briefcase in the back of a Gotham taxi. Driver Kobina Wood turned in the case, which contained family pictures, copies of the prayers Domingo says before each performance and the score of the show he's currently performing. The tenor sent the cabby tickets. Another opera fan is born...
...pride, and I knew respect for the tools in my box. A rasp, a plane, a hammer, an auger, a gimlet, an adze, a cubit rule, a saw, and three chisels for paring, as well as a gouge--all were mine. And my knowledge of how to treat wood became another tool...
...issued a statement in response to the fifth circuit's holding in Hop-wood v. Texas, a federal appeals case which undermined affirmative action in that state's admissions policies. In the past few months, he has addressed the Massachusetts Historical Society, Princeton University and the American Council on Education on the subject of diversity
...corner from this intriguing introduction is the first gallery, a darkly lit hall filled with sculptures, scrolls, and paintings from the China's earliest dynastic periods, most notably the Han (206 B.C. - A.D. 220) and Tang (618-907 A.D.) dynasties. Aside from a vitrine comparing a Neolithic pre-Buddhist wood painting to a brightly-colored yet carefully-shaded Buddhist silk scroll, the exhibition quickly abandons its emphatic insistence on religion as an organizing principle and begins to strain under the weight of its own ambitious chronological framework. An intricate gold dragon stands prominently along the main path with scant explanation...