Word: bret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hell," says first-year student Bret S. Derman. "It's always the glamour--never the boring stuff, which is most...
...real trip," agrees Bret S. Derman, a first-year student...
...Bret Williams '90 said he wanted to keep in touch with his classmates...
...some respects, the comedy of musical beds and drugs and knockabout buffoonery seems almost made for MTV. The scene of two young men playing mixed doubles with their interchangeable girlfriends would not seem strange to the kids in Bret Easton Ellis novels, who fall into bed with anyone at all, scarcely stopping to ascertain identity, or even sex. Titania's sudden passion for ass-headed Bottom seems almost natural in the age of Ecstasy, when someone who takes a tab of MDMA is liable to open her heart to the first person she sees. And Pyramus and Thisbe, wooing each...
...most of them, return was a financial and political chimera. Against their wishes and traditions, home became the U.S. Initially, their neighbors regarded them, in Bret Harte's words, as the "Heathen Chinee," an enduring caricature of cheap labor and social isolation, living in towns within cities, operating behind the impenetrable facades of restaurants and laundries. It was decades before the hostility softened to tolerance and, in recent years, to appreciation...