Word: beare
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...education beyond the range of middle-income groups. As tuition continues to increase, the contradictions inherent in maintaining a diverse student body at an elite university become more and more severe. If middle-income students are priced out of Harvard, a diminishing minority of the wealthy will have to bear the cost of the diversity which is based on financial aid, and they may quickly grow tired of that burden. Ultimately it seems that if Harvard cannot find a way of stabilizing tuition, it may revert to the ultra-elitism which characterized it 50 years ago. Although it seems inevitable...
...Waiting for Godot, but without the existential mantle that cloaks Becket's fine work and gives it its legitimacy, Mamet simply cannot pull it off. There is just not enough of a plot to give his idea any weight, and what little there is is far too flimsy to bear the tensions Mamet imposes. A tacked-on existential conclusion to a mundane drama about the values of the urban lower class is just too much of a contrast. Had Mamet stuck to one theme or another, the conclusion might have made more sense...
Nowhere in Hanson's work, once the first frisson of encounter has worn off - as, inevitably, it does - can one feel that an organizing, selective imagination has been intelligently brought to bear on its raw material. Instead we are offered a basic theatrical package, a quick jolt to the sense of reality which, unlike the pleasures of more organized or complex art, fails to renew itself. It all ends up as Norman Rockwell in 3-D and grimy jeans, minus the period optimism: not contemptible, but not the stuff of which anything but il lustration can be made . Robert...
...seems a bit much to bear until Pippin's grandmother, Berthe, provides the necessary comic relief. Berthe, played brilliantly by Thelam Carpenter, is a vivacious, sassy old lady who gets up to sing her jazzy number after excoriating the men's war games. "Men and their wars! Sometimes I think men raise flags when they can't get anything else...
...ARGUMENTS THAT the members of Harvard's power elite offer to justify secrecy bear a remarkable similarity to those arguments proffered by politicians who tried to keep legislative committee meetings closed to the public. But just as American taxpayers have demanded the right to know how their taxes are being spent, so Harvard students and their parents should have some knowledge about where their money is going. CUE meetings should not be closed to reporters on campus newspapers...