Word: yoing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...powerful, pans a performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, watches a cockfight, tells the story of how his wife burned her hand. Always on the prowl for a likely wench, he writes, in his easily decipherable code, about Deb, a servant: on March 31, 1668, "Yo did take her, the first time in my life, sobra me genu and did poner mi mano sub her jupes and toca su thigh." Yet Pepys' journals are far more than an account of appetites satisfied or denied; along his way the diarist recounts the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague...
DIED. Leonard Rose, 66, world-renowned cellist, admired for the technical mastery and elegance of his performances in solo work and chamber groups; of leukemia; in White Plains, N.Y. Rose was a brilliant, dedicated teacher whose students included the virtuosos Yo-Yo Ma and Lynn Harrell and many cellists in America's top symphony orchestras...
...mention composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein '39 and cellist Yo-Yo Ma '75, writers John H. Updike '54 and Peter B. Benchley '61, poets T.S. Eliot '10 and George Santayana '99, and a multitude of others...
...gigantic yo-yo consists of a platform weighing more than a ton and hanging under the side of the balloon, an eight-mile cable and a 130-pound "monkey...
Mayman says that the celebrations will include bringing back alumni who went on in the arts--such as cellist Yo-Yo Ma '76 and Peter Sellars '80, the new artistic director at the Boston Shakespeare Company...