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...students had gushed forth into Harvard Yard in a somewhat contrived, but still impressive show of emotion, the buzz around campus was all about baseball. The hallowed lecture halls echoed the voices of the Porters and Sandels, but the names of Ortiz and Ramirez and Cabrera and Lowe. The brightest paid homage to the best...
Like Jews at a baptism, Gadfly had to ask the person next to us what exactly was going down in the water. Turns out the Northeast’s best and brightest prefer to settle their collegiate rivalries by imitating the slave galley on a Roman warship...
...even in this, his brightest moment in the spotlight, the tailback was quick to deflect the praise and spread the credit to everyone but himself...
Having spent my undergraduate years at Stanford and now starting my graduate studies at Harvard, I have arguably been exposed to some of the brightest minds of my generation. Since freshman year, I have been continually disappointed at a profound lack of intellectualism in most students. The game of “who can name the most philosophers in two minutes” does not count as intellectualism. The disturbing behavior I have observed is the unwillingness of students to form coherent and logical arguments...
...here, though, is sunny—a grave stylistic misstep. In a climate of uncertainty, where parents are never sure their children will survive to come home, a film that builds up their brightest hopes is merely pandering. At the end, we see the crazy lady isn’t actually crazy: It’s her world that is insane. The validation of her fears should have been enough of a conclusion, and in our world it would have been, but, for The Forgotten...