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Irene Worth portrays Wharton

By Miriam Kolar | October 31, 1994

Hanover welcomed Tony Award-winning actress Irene Worth to Spaulding Auditorium Friday night, as she performed her dynamic "Portrait of Edith Wharton." Worth's recital consisted of selections from the autobiography and works of Wharton, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of such novels as "The Age of Innocence" and "Ethan Frome." Adorned in a shimmering apricot Fortuny gown given to her by the actress Lillian Gish, Worth became Wharton reminiscing about her formative years.

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Pretenders rock Leede Arena

By Susan Zieger | October 31, 1994

The Pretenders commandeered Leede Arena Friday night, reminding the crowd of more than 1,000 what hard-driving, melodic rock 'n' roll is all about.

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Ray School sexual harassment case comes to a close

By Kate Armstrong | October 27, 1994

At a public forum held Tuesday at Hanover's elementary school, officials from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights criticized the school district's handling of a sexual harassment case. In July, the OCR cleared a male teacher at the Bernice A.

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Poet Gluck reads

By Susan Zieger | October 25, 1994

Lousie Gluck, a poet highly acclaimed for the spare intensity of her work, enchanted an audience gathered in Rockefeller Center yesterday afternoon with a reading of her poems. Gluck, who teaches creative writing at Williams College in Williamstown, Mass., read from each of her books, culminating with "The Wild Iris" (1992) which won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

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Tabling the truth

By Susan Zieger | October 24, 1994

"The Table: A Play for Four Voices and Basso Ostinato" by Ida Fink was read Saturday night in the Warner Bentley theater in conjunction with this weekend's Holocaust conference, "Lessons and Legacies III: Memory, Memorialization and Denial." The work dramatizes the sort of inane scrutiny Holocaust deniers would impose on the testimony of survivors.

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Pumpkin picking

By Marisa Howe | October 20, 1994

Time is running out for students who wish to pick their own pumpkins for the approaching Halloween festivities. With the first frost of the season already here, many farms are closing down to the public and harvesting the remaining vegetables themselves for sale at stands and markets. "We just had a killer frost [last Tuesday] night which really hit pumpkins hard.

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Kenney '70 wins poetry prize

By Katherine Kaneko | October 19, 1994

The Lannan Foundation awarded one of its 10 prestigious literary awards to the poet Richard Kenney '70 for his works, "The Evolution of the Flightless Bird" (1984), "The Orrery" (1985), and most recently, "The Invention of the Zero" (1993). Given annually, the Lannan Literary Awards were established in 1989 to recognize exceptional writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Hitchcock Alliance aims to boost care

By Aran Toshav | October 13, 1994

In an effort to improve the quality of health care in the Upper Valley region, Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital and other regional, but smaller, health care facilities have formed an affiliation called the Hitchcock Alliance. The Upper Connecticut Valley Hospital in Colebrook, N.H.

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Local children rehearse 'Macbeth,' with a little help

By Rena M. Chicklas | October 11, 1994

Many a high school or college student has agonized over reading the plays of Shakespeare, but the students working on Dartmouth's Shakespeare Project are helping some kids to get ahead by introducing them to Shakespeare early -- in elementary school. "It's a new area for START, " said Liza Tedeschi '95, a junior intern for Student Teachers in the Arts, and Director of the new Shakespeare in the Schools Project. START , part of Hopkins Center Outreach and Arts Education, is a program which brings Dartmouth students into local schools to work with children.

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Jazz duo dazzles Rollins crowd

By Saditya Dutt | October 11, 1994

In perhaps the most initmate setting for a concert, Rollins Chapel, the duo of Dwike Mitchell and Willie Ruff dazzled a full house with two hours of classic jazz last night. In a time when playing standards and ballads is considered "regressive" by some critics, Mitchell (piano) and Ruff (bass, French horn), along with Professor of Music Fred Haas (alto, tenor saxophone) put on a clinic on improvisation, technique and musical expression using tunes that have been played thousands of times by equally as many musicians.

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Saving lives with a camera and a calling

By Susan Zieger | October 11, 1994

James Nachtwey '70, a photojournalist whose images have mined the depths of human despair in troubled regions all over the world, gave a moving account of his calling yesterday at a press conference in the Hood Museum. The conference was occasioned by the exhibition of his photographs, curated by Timothy Rub, the Hood's Director.

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