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Hearing the place-name Kyrgyzstan related to the family journey of the Tsarnaev brothers who attacked Boston made me think of a post I’d written a couple of years ago. I went into the vault to find it, and am re-running it here as an echo from the past and another…
Read More »F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” has been the subject of six movies, the first being a silent movie in 1926, a year after the novel appeared. The newest version, with Leonardo DeCaprio, will be released next month. “Gatsby” is often ranked as the best American novel. “On the Road”…
Read More »For the best year of ice hockey at UMass Lowell, thank you River Hawks—for the championship season and uplifted spirits.
Read More »Doors open at 3 PM; Game Starts at 4:30 PMYour River Hawks will play in the Frozen Four for the very first time and you can join your fellow River Hawks fans at the Tsongas Center in the Lowell Bank Pavilion and watch all the action. You will also have…
Read More »Professor George Lopez, Chair of Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame is this year’s F. Bradford Morse Distinguished Lecturer. Join UMass Lowell and Middlesex Community College for a reception at 5:30 p.m. and lecture at 6:30 p.m. in the Brad Morse Federal Building, 50 Kearney Square, Lowell, Massachusetts. The lecture…
Read More »For those who haven’t heard from other channels UMass Lowell’s Portuguese Center event with poet Frank X. Gaspar that was scheduled for Thursday evening, April 11, has been cancelled due to a change in the author’s schedule! Please stay tuned for details our event with anthropology scholar Cristiana Bastos on…
Read More »I’m glad I went down to the river last night. The preacher was in town, and the congregation was called to assemble. He made his fourth tour through the city of smokestacks and steeples, the small city with the world on its streets. The people arrived with eager, happy looks…
Read More »The Milk Snatcher . In 1975 I remember marching, as a scuffy undergraduate, to Parliament calling for Margaret Thatcher’s resignation as Minister for Education. I carried a banner which read “Thatcher The Milk Snatcher”—one of Thatcher’s first forays into re-aligning the British state was to propose ending the distribution of…
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