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Harvard's credo is similar to that of George Bailey in the classic Christmas film It's a Wonderful Life, who says to his friends in sleepy Bedford Falls, "I'm going to shake the dust of this crummy little town off my feet, and I'm gonna see the world!" Harvard, for most of us, is the place where the last of that dust finally shakes loose and wider vistas open before us. Who needs Christmas when you can retire...
...film, George Bailey never gets out of Bedford Falls. His brother Harry goes off to war and wins the Medal of Honor and his friend Sam Wainwright becomes a business tycoon. But George struggles to support his wife and children. And when the debts pile up and things look black, George finds himself on the railing of a bridge, ready to leap...
Harvard, of course, aspires to make us all like Harry Bailey and Sam Wainwright--or even, God help us, like Mr. Potter, the wealthy, grasping banker of Bedford Falls. And no one here, no gov jock or pre-med or final club frequenter wants to be George Bailey. No one wants to suffer and sweat and barely scrape by, to give up youthful potential in favor of adult burdens, to sacrifice dreams on the altar of necessity. No one wants to be at the end of their rope on Christmas Eve, staring down into dark water and needing a little...
...could get cute and explicate the movie as an anticorporate parable. Without George and his community-conscious building and loan, the cartoonishly bad Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore) would have synergized Bedford Falls into a grim and soulless company town. Do people respond to the movie as a protest against takeovers? I doubt...
...Balestracci ended his high school playing career as one of the most celebrated athletes in school history. A standout in football, basketball and baseball, he was the first athlete from New Bedford ever to be named a conference all-star in two sports...