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...annual Mensa murder weekend, when the geniuses gather to solve their perfect fantasy crime. "When a death threat appears on the doorstep," he wrote in a booklet for the event, "prudent people throw out all their food and watch what they eat." An undercover agent, planted in Mensa to befriend Trepal and learn his secrets, ultimately found the evidence against him: a small vial in the garage containing traces of thallium. How could a genius be so dumb...
That said, house masters do befriend some students. They serve on committees and they hold open houses and teas. When they had life tenure, they were more likely to impact the tone and personality of their houses, but even today, they have the opportunity to shape the house character. And of course, all these duties are in addition to regular teaching or administrative responsibilities...
...Irwin, he is one of the most winsome presences in the American theater. In the sketchbook Largely New York, which opened on Broadway last week, he wears a top hat and spectacles, carries a white cane and resembles an elongated Jiminy Cricket. All around him are people he might befriend, if only he could break through their obsessive isolation with entertainment machines -- a Walkman, a boom box, a video camera, a TV monitor. Irwin himself carries a remote control, purportedly hooked up to the tiers of curtains onstage and the sound system that sporadically blares Tea for Two while...
Still, Jerry's outbursts are often funny, particularly his 20-minute monologue about his efforts to kill--and later to befriend--his landlady's vicious dog. O'Keefe gives Jerry violent mood swings that make him both scary and funny, perhaps too funny, since Oleson's Peter tends to look more bemused than horrified...
...house masters next week should keep in mind that any ceilings would restrict students' choice. It's time they realized that undergraduates are mature adults who can make their own decisions about where they want to live and who they want to befriend...