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...Adams House Drama Society is putting on Travesties, a Tony Award-winning play by Tom Stoppard. Set in 1917 Zurich, the witty comedy follows a fictive plot involving Irish novelist James Joyce and Russian revolutionary Lenin. Tickets $10 regular, $5 students, $4 Adams House residents. Through May 1. Adams House Pool Theatre...
George Balanchine, the hugely influential Russian choreographer, left his unique touch on ballet throughout the 20th century, and is revered as one of the great masters of the art of dance. This centenary exhibit contains items spanning his entire career, and is drawn from the Harvard Theatre Collection. Free and open to the public. Through May 29. Pusey Library...
...intersection of Eliot and Brattle streets. “It’s a statue of Doo Doo, Igor’s favorite character, that was commissioned by the Cambridge Arts Council, placed there in honor of him,” says Henoch. “A Russian sculptor named Konstantin Simun created the statue, and over 1000 people attended the dedication...
Speaking against the post–Vietnam backdrop of Soviet–American détente, the Russian author must have sounded hopelessly atavistic. The “lessons” of Vietnam were supposed to have humbled Cold Warriors and made them repentant for championing a policy of vigilant anti–Communism. Yet here was Solzhenitsyn defending not only the essential justness of U.S. intervention in Southeast Asia, but also rebuking the West for not doing more to meet the Communist challenge and stop “the forces of Evil.” As Harvard Law School...
...program, according to the U.S. General Accounting Office. One veteran U.N. reporter has predicted that “it could be the biggest financial crime in the history of humankind.” The scandal implicates, among others, U.N. Oil-for-Food executive director Benon Sevan, French and Russian oil contractors, and possibly even Kojo Annan, Kofi’s son. When all is said and done, the Oil-for-Food disgrace might be where the U.N.’s credibility meets its Waterloo...