Word: awkwardnesses
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...order, skipping the rhinestones, replaying the jewels. Jules Dassin had enough of those - The Tell-Tale Heart, Brute Force, Thieves' Highway, Rififi - as well as moments in many other films that shine like sapphires. And since this is a tribute to an unfashionable director, I'll end with an awkward confession, courtesy of my 17-year-old self. Once upon a time, I loved Phaedra...
...Elements of Style, “Vigorous writing is concise.” Orwell agrees, telling us “If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.” It is unclear what the value added by the current long and awkward name is; every word after “English” is superfluous. For a department concerned with promoting good writing, precision and concision are essential. So hopefully, in a matter of days, The Harvard Department of English will practice what it preaches by possessing a name that says what...
...Almost as soon as freshmen first arrive on campus—in between awkward theatrical performances about contraception and date-rape, and ultimately futile, furtive searches for beer—they begin to feign an interest in baseball just as the local team wraps up its season. No matter if they are from Baltimore or Bakersfield, Bucharest or Beirut, many Harvard students—for a month at least in early autumn—are rabid Red Sox fans...
...Those halcyon days of my sophomore year, replete with plastic gallon bottles of Cossack gin in the Junior Common Room, will soon go the way of Lobster Night, House pride, and Allston residents. In their stead, undergrads will get long nights of nursing Natty Ice and making awkward small talk with creepy graduate students—euphemistically styled “Beverage Authorization Teams”—who will soon be a mandatory part of every tea social on campus...
Twelve Harvard students file into a room wearing jackets and ties. Aside from their formal attire and the adult setting they find themselves in, their awkward conversations and adolescent posture quickly betray them as college students. This is the beginning of “Twelve Angry Men,” directed by Julia M. Runcie ’10 and Sonia G. DeYoung ’10 and produced by Joy Ding ’10, which runs through this Friday in the Loeb Ex. The play details the deliberation of a jury that must decide the fate...