Word: characterizations
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In "Advice for Cornell," The Crimson Staff attacks randomization on the grounds that it has eroded the "individual character" and "distinguishable flavor" of the Houses. This critique would been more convincing had it not been based on a flawed conception of the origin of the House system.
The critical point here it that it was precisely the homogeneity of the Gold Coast dorm--the-fact that the "Gold-Coasters" were a self-selected and elite group--that ultimately led to the establishment of Harvard's House system in the 1930's. When, by the 1990's, the...
In this post-randomization era, rather than mourn the fading of a nebulous notion of "character" in the Houses, we should examine whether they are becoming the heterogeneous, open communities they were originally meant to be. MARC ROMANOFF '01 Oct. 30, 1998
No risk, no regrets, for in his new films, Sir Ian demonstrates how a lifetime of stage wizardry can be poured into a screen character. In Apt Pupil he is, in director Bryan Singer's phrase, "an old, alcoholic, sitcom-watching Nazi" hiding in California anonymity 40 years after the...
DIED. JOAN HICKSON, 92, British character actress; in Colchester, England. Hickson, whose career on the stage and screen began in 1927, won international fame in 1984 as a septuagenarian--TV's sharp-witted sleuth Miss Jane Marple, in the BBC series Mystery! Queen Elizabeth II, a devoted fan of Hickson...