Fri, Feb 14, 2003, 12:00am
It's Valentine's Day, that wonderful day each year when people around the country will celebrate the life of a Catholic saint by doing all the things most explicitly forbidden to observing Catholics (that's right, we mean taking the Lord's name in vain).
Thu, Feb 13, 2003, 12:00am
Reducing the great works of Western civilization to crass musical comedy is a sin regularly committed by well-meaning high school drama teachers and conceited adolescents, quickly forgotten and easily avoidable by audiences.
Thu, Feb 13, 2003, 12:00am
"Nijinsky has become one of the most famous men of the century, but never was so much artistic fame based on so little artistic evidence," notes Joan Acocella in her introduction to the revised translation of The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky.
Thu, Feb 13, 2003, 12:00am
"I'm so unhappy ... I feel so blue ..." coos Whoopie Goldberg as the title role in the Broadway revival of August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. The lights slowly dim as Ma Rainey, the mother of jazz, sings the mood-setting song.
Thu, Feb 13, 2003, 12:00am
Many casual observers of dance performances are struck by the seeming ease with which the performers execute their craft.
Thu, Feb 13, 2003, 12:00am
Last October, in a Daily News editorial titled "Too Few Students Debating War," President Judith Shapiro lamented the "collective silence on the question of war with Iraq." Shapiro called campus dialogue "muted," especially in comparison to her own activist days in the 1960s.
Thu, Feb 13, 2003, 12:00am
The Low Library Rotunda played host to the Black Alumni Heritage Month Reception last night, an event which drew together alumni from more than fifty years of Columbia's history for an evening of speeches and the presentation of the annual Heritage Award.
Thu, Feb 13, 2003, 12:00am
Barnard wants to offer the best education a woman can get.
It plans to do so by revamping its physical space in order to foster a new intellectual environment.
The next 15 years will show whether or not it can achieve these goals.
Thu, Feb 13, 2003, 12:00am
William J. Bennett is a busy man. Since moving to Washington from Harvard University to serve as Secretary of Education under President Ronald Reagan in the 1980s, he has become one of the nation's foremost conservative spokesmen, straddling the worlds of media and government.
Thu, Feb 13, 2003, 12:00am
Amid protests, six hundred people crowded into Miller Theatre last night to hear a panel of conservative intellectuals speak about the fight against terrorism and the potential war in Iraq.
