Word: career
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...choice to portray Tom Ripley as a gay man is risky, and not only for Matt Damon's career. As a man capable of murder on a bad day (don't worry, I'm not really giving anything away), a gay Thomas Ripley might become some terrible variation on the mythic self-hating homosexual serial killed--a queasy Andrew Cunanan done up in old-fashioned clothes. But the change actually produces all kinds of new tensions that deepen the emotional weight of the story. Tom's confused sexuality is just another expression of his place outside the privileged world...
...Throughout her career, Gordimer has been a paragon of authorly virtue: a white writer in apartheid South Africa, she stood staunchly with what she always calls the "liberation movement." Her fiction exposes the bleeding heart of South African society, and her eye is precise and unflinching. This is not to say that her fiction is nakedly ideological: rather, it speaks complex truths about human relationships and social realities. It shocks the reader with its honesty...
Many Harvard students spend summers and semesters abroad, increasingly in developing countries. About 150 join study abroad programs in general each year, and an additional 25 work abroad with the Weissman program. Many other students participate in programs not run by the Office of Career Services (OCS), according to International Experience Office Director Jane Pavese...
Prince said Harvard students, who cannot earn a degree in the performing arts, are not at a disadvantage if they wish to enter theater production as a career...
...years old, Prince entered the University of Pennsylvania and began his career in the footlights by acting...