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Robert O. Gjerdingen. a musicologist at Carleton College, said, "The stipend is more than enough [for us] to avoid being street people, but far from enough to live as we do out here in the Midwest...
...good time along the way. Especially notable are David Schrag's portrayal of Hugo, the snide and arrogant eldest son; Bill Salloway as the confused but moral police inspector who tries to sort out the Charles family; and Donal Logue as the "Buddhist skinhead" and youngest son. Donald Carleton plays the wise-cracking butler, and despite his occasionally stilted delivery he often brings down the house because Idle has given him the best lines...
...promise a fugitive's paradise: not Arcadia, but a clean slate. The dreams are fed by novels and movies and by the bromides of Sunbelt boosterism. They are also prompted by more than a century of Western landscape photography, from the 19th century panoramas of William Henry Jackson and Carleton Watkins to the raptures of Ansel Adams. Such sources fed the fantasy of the West as a sublime hermitage, an unpeopled vista where the black comedies of human affairs have yet to intrude...
...ALSO a Widener Library-sized leap in approach from that favored by Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, where I used to go to school. You won't find t-shirts in the Wesleyan school store that read "Wesleyan, Carleton of the East." Instead, you'll find a very popular shirt that lists a number of other schools in the country which have "Wesleyan" in their title (there must be at least 30)--making it clear that that the Middletown version is not related to any of the others. At the bottom of the shirt is the most telling line...
Many other schools operate on this principle. "It's our philosophy that it is good as a freshman to have upperclass friends," says Paula Carleton, director of undergraduate housing at Princeton, which incorporated this belief into its new residential college system. That system, which began to be passed in several years ago, requires all freshmen and sophomores to live in a residential college with about 30 juniors and seniors acting as residential advisers...