Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...masters make every effort to attend house committee and house functions. They do not eat in the dining hall that frequently. Master Dowling tries to dictate social policy in the house, and his outspoken distaste for alcohol at Leverett functions has left many students with a bad feeling about social life in the house...
...There are no bad things about Mather House. Right now the only bad thing is that the Herlihys are leaving. We'll all miss them very much...
Despite its moralizing, the film moves along quite well with the pace of a thriller and occasional elements of a gangster flick. Except for a few moments of sentimentality when Johnny tries to resist a regression to his former "bad boy" ways, Laundrette sports all the signs of a low-budget masterpiece...
...utterly inadequate for such an endeavor, but he attacks the heart of high school superficiality with all the unconventional weapons of his character and his very down-to-earth courage. Will Lucas get the girl? Will his classmates accept him for what he is? Are football players such bad guys after all? This is Hollywood. You can bet at least a compromise with fate will be worked...
...approval. Rather, I say this hesitantly, it was an indictment against the authenticity of his "minoritiship" at Harvard. It seems that he has lost touch with the essence of what the booklet says. As mentioned above, the fact that Harvard attracts this type of minority (which is not "bad", but when this minority becomes the majority of the number of minorities accepted, what true minority is there?) is one of the reports' first premises on which its further condemnation of Harvard/minority relations is built...