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...lets us forget it. In college, they say, you get to craft your own academic pursuits, to explore your interests in considerable depth. You make the friendships that last a lifetime. You may even meet your future spouse. The seeds of future happiness are planted in these four brief years...
...brief opening segment, which Marianne narrates, we find her racked with uncertainty, despite her auspicious surname. (One wonders if the French isn’t also intended to include echoes of Latin liber, “book,” as it is presumably Marianne who has written down the tale; Sadie herself proudly proclaims, “Everything I tells you happen long ago. Me I remembers it just like morning…No need to write it down.”) Having just received a marriage proposal from a Chas Freeman, who vanishes quickly after having fulfilled this...
...rewarding projects I have ever worked on. There were times during that rehearsal process that the entire world seemed to come to a halt and give way to the moment we were working on in the room. And I learned more about the theater and life in those few brief weeks of rehearsal than I had from all the times I had acted combined...
Summers twice used the word “collegial” yesterday, once in his opening remarks to the Faculty and again in a brief statement released after the meeting. The word appeared to evoke not just the academic setting over which Summers presides but also a spirit of inclusiveness that his critics say has been missing from his leadership to date...
Greg Hopkins, noted trumpet player and Professor of Jazz Composition at Berklee College of Music, served as the “guest adjudicator” of the evening, sitting at a small table right in front of the performers and scribbling brief notes...