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...characters share a common search for a sense of identity—a sense which can only be arrived at by a reflection on the past. Smith’s stories of life’s everyday occurrences are at once both introspective and universal. Her characters remain totally ambiguous??they are roles in which readers are free to cast themselves. At the same time, Smith writes in a strongly personal style, and her voice is channeled through each of her stories’ characters. The intimate conversations between figures in the story feel almost autobiographical in their...
Poire—who served on a panel studying the election with Dillon Professor of International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez—said that Lopez Obrador’s credentials on democracy were “ambiguous?? because as mayor of Mexico City he at times ignored the mandates of the local legislature, challenged the authority of the Mexican Supreme Court, and obstructed the operations of the renowned international anti-graft organization, Transparency International. But he hastened to add that comparing Lopez Obrador to Chavez is unfair—the former was not a military general...
...mysterious doctor who comes in with evil, giant plans to take over the world. I needed someone who was captivating and who could have that power. Julia was it. She blew us away at auditions.”Chan hopes to bring “a sort of androgynous, ambiguous?? aspect to the protagonist that will make her a more frightening and universal figure. Though other characters in the play are “flamboyant” and “outrageous,” she describes Knock as “very normal...
...article in a late December issue of The New Yorker: “the most powerful leverage in fiction comes from point of view” (found in an analysis of the last draft of his third novel, The Deer Park); “film is best when ambiguous?? (found in an essay on writing for the silver screen); “your material only becomes valuable when it is existential, by which I mean an experience you do not control” (found in an account of Mailer’s apprenticeship to his craft at Harvard...
After an hour of debate, during which council veteran Justin A. Barkley ’02 called the grant allottment process “flippant” and “ambiguous?? and members of the Finance Committee fiercely defended their procedures, Agarwalla’s motion failed...
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