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Needless, because, as Paul A. Allen, vice president and general counsel of Visa USA, points out, "There are always horror stories, but in reality, college students perform as well as or better than the credit card holding population at large." Roughly four percent of college-age cardholders default on their debt--about the same percentage as the cardholding population at large...
Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square. 876-6837. "The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg" at 4, 5:45, 7:30, 9:15 and Saturday matinee at 2:15 through Thursday, Mar. 10. This engaging and tender documentary portrays a view of the last fifty years through the penetrating eyes of the visionary poet and pacifist, Allen Ginsberg...
Professors tend to discount the psychological effects of the B+. "What's happening is that a materialistic concern is being made into a psychodrama," remarks classics professor Gregory Nagy. But according to UHS psychiatrist Dr. Irving M. Allen, grade-anxiety is real. "It's a problem. People... aren't doing as well as they'd like to... You certainly get the impression that Harvard is a pressure cooker." But, Allen warns, victims of the B+ blues "weren't made at Harvard. It long precedes Harvard... [They] come to Harvard full of desire to get A's." Pasula agrees that...
With the emotional intensity of William Faulkner, the eeriness of Edgar Allen Poe and some of the old-style manners of Margaret Mitchell, the film version of Tennessee Williams' smashing play, "A Streetcar Named Desire," won four Academy Awards in 1951. Today those non-descript Oscar figurines should be polished to their original sheen because perfection, impossibly enough, has been improved. Four minutes of charged dialogue, violent actions and a different ending have returned this film to the state Williams and director Elia Kazan originally intended...
...first Best actor award, but he set the standard for modern day Method acting. His infamous cries of "Stelllllaaaaa...Stelllllaaaaa" have rung in the ears of audiences for years. Maybe now their tone will be even more embittered, and one of Blanche's opening lines, "Only Edgar Allen Poe could do justice to it," will finally be true in describing "A Streetcar Named Desire...