Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those students who plunge their very souls into their extracurriculars. (We at The Crimson wouldn't know anything about that.) One minute you have perfectly normal roommates, and the next they've vanished to produce the Hasty Pudding Show (Harvard's annual drag extravaganza), plan cultural fairs for the Asian American Association (the largest group on campus) or dress up as stags for midnight rituals of the Science Fiction Association (if they're into that sort of thing...
...those students who plunge their very souls into their extracurriculars. (We at The Crimson wouldn't know anything about that.) One minute you have perfectly normal roommates, and the next they've vanished to produce the Hasty Pudding Show (Harvard's annual drag extravaganza), plan cultural fairs for the Asian American Association (the largest group on campus) or dress up as stags for midnight rituals of the Science Fiction Association (if they're into that sort of thing...
...Butterfly was the featured presentation last weekend of the Asian American Association Players under the direction of LeeAnn Tzeng together with producers Michelle Chen '99, Flora Kao '00 and Michelle Lee '01. The cast delivered energetic and entertaining performances but at times seemed to overplay the exaggerated prejudices of their characters. Then again, Hwang's script leaves little room for interpretation. The drama revolves around one dimensional, stock characters, and that is how the cast portrayed them...
Rene's chauvinistic attitude toward women infuses his political views. He repeatedly conflates stereotypes of Asian women as submissive sex slaves with an imperialistic view of the East. We can't help but wince at cliches such as, "So much for protecting her in my big Western arms" or "Orientals will always submit to a greater force," which he produces with over-whelming frequency. Rene follows in the footsteps of the comic figure prevalent in classical theater, a buffoon so completely blinded by a shallow and childlike ideology that he fails or rather refuses to foresee his eventual ruin...
Lewis acknowledged the College's difficulty inselecting the specific groups to include in itsmeasurement--settling finally on groups it namedas "Asian," "Afro-American" and "White," inaddition to "Athlete...