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...Even though we’re sitting down, we’re giving you a standing ovation,” says an excited Max Bialystock (Nathan Lane) after an impromptu dance performance by the voluptuous secretary, Ulla (Uma Thurman). Such bawdy, off-color humor is characteristic of Mel Brooks?? comedic genius, the writer/director of classics as “Spaceballs,” “Blazing Saddles,” and “Robin Hood: Men in Tights.” His newest venture is the film adaptation of his monstrously successful Broadway comedy musical...
Exeter grad, Ivy-leaguer, and Marine. Peter H. Brooks ’06 breaks the mold. The events of Sept. 11, 2001, inspired Brooks??—Brooksy to his friends—to join the Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) the summer before his first year at Harvard. But after his third year, he decided to switch to the Marines. “I wanted to be more focused on people and training and leading young troops,” he says. Joining the Marines ROTC means joining the grunts—and one of the most...
...conscientious college student of today. He found that Princeton students, whom he used as an example, “feel no compelling need to rebel—not even a hint of one. They not only defer to authority; they admire it.” Though I often find Brooks?? writing frustrating, his term has echoed in my head for the four years I’ve been at Harvard. Not only is the Organization Kid present at Harvard, but she dominates the scene here...
...damned” and lingered for an hour in the dining hall “marinating” post-meal. There was the universe-probing late-night conversation held over a double-decker or a courtyard-imbibed bottle of Two-Buck Chuck. These are not the kids of David Brooks?? world—except that at other times they are precisely...
...that the “elite” of our generation is as I say it is. That we can break the Organization Kid mold on occasion doesn’t diminish the concerns outlined in the New York Times article and doesn’t begin to address Brooks?? criticism about character building and moral discourse. But I do think this flexibility to be something other than purely goal-driven success machines is one that will serve us well in the future...