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...anyone with the slightest contact with our alma mater, “The History Boys?? becomes much more than a 2004 London West End hit transplanted onto Broadway. In the context of the Thatcherite eighties, the play focuses around eight students from a north English grammar school seeking admission to the world’s most exclusive and competitive educational institutions. Pressured from the school administration and attracted primarily by the behemoth of reputation, they linger at school beyond their final examinations for extra classes in preparation for admission interviews and papers...
...History Boys?? does not have one theme; its profundity lies in dealing with an eclectic but complimentary variety of issues, all of which relate to elite education. Bennett’s play addresses homosexuality, and literature’s raison d’ être; it analyzes legacies, but also the understandability of the Holocaust; it tries to define money’s role in education while addressing gender neutrality and manliness...
With a heavily British accent, “The History Boys?? achieves what only masterful art can: a diverse but cohesive critique of education and its meaning. After witnessing these students’ dreams of Oxbridge, it is left to the spectator to ponder over the “confusion of a real education with cold, ancient cobblestone.” A sublime opposition in their, yet also our, Cambridge...
...focus was often exclusively on her gender.Closer to home, when The Crimson elected a female president, managing editor, and business manager in 2004, Glamour Magazine ran a short piece on the appointment of women to the top three positions of what was supposedly a traditional bastion of the old boys?? club. Never mind that the first female president of the Crimson took office in 1977, and numerous women had held each of the positions since then, just not all at the same time. This particular coincidence exemplified yet another step forward for women in society.But every time...
...Beasties’ position in the midst of middle-school hip-hop is the unique point in their repertoire. Other people have tried to develop their own sound and have tried to develop their own record label once they had a hit-record. Only the Beasties pioneered white-boys?? involvement in mainstream hip-hop. The current marketplace of rap albums carried almost entirely by the white-suburban market was introduced with the push of “License to Ill”—which they almost called Don't Be a Faggot?...