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...Will do, pal. You start right after graduation. You work 100 to 120 hours a week in a flourescently-lit work-carrel that you will soon know as 'home.' Of course, you will have to kiss-ass unabashedly for the privilege of keeping your job--this is called `paying your dues.' Individualism has no place in the monotonous, automated arena that is now your life...
...only God with a congregation of more than one person is immortalized in ink on a study carrel wall in Lamont Library. Quite simply, Alan Brinkley is God." At least two others concurred, writing down "Yep" and "agreed...
This last carrel--on the ground floor of Lamont Library--proceeds to display a running list of more than 30 students' SAT scores. The math scores are consistently higher...
Despite the ceaseless efforts of cleaning crews to keep surfaces clean, the writing consistently reappears on carrel walls and bathroom stalls. The wooden desks in Lamont are scored with gouges, although the ink has been washed away. One such etching offered the following message, a testimony to the inevitable end of even the most lovingly inscribed graffiti...
Imagine that, buried in a forgotten carrel at the back of the British Museum, a hitherto unknown comedy by the 17th century playwright William Congreve had been discovered. Fancy further that his comedy was put not on the stage but on film, with every world-weary epigram and convoluted conceit intact. Such a notion must have occurred to the English experimental film maker Peter Greenaway. With The Draughtsman's Contract, which he wrote and directed two years ago, he has restored the Restoration sensibility. Here is a comedy-mystery laced with Triple Sec humor and stately, raunchy characters...