Word: characterizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Re "Advice for Cornell" (Editorial, Oct. 29): While there can be a variety of views about Harvard's housing policy, there can be no doubt about President A. Lawrence Lowell's intention in creating the House system. The Crimson states, "Earlier this century, the residents, Masters and tutors worked together...
While Pennypacker in the only dorm which hastaken on a character similar to that of one of thenonrandomized Houses, the other Union dorms aremarked by a clustering effect.
Scenes in the style of Mr. King, normally complex and intriguing, are here sickening. Certainly the convention that spares cute animals in Hollywood movies, normally annoying, is here unforgivable: a movie that seems to pride itself on confronting its audience with the fact of the Holocaust nonetheless stops short of...
This said, Mr. McKellan may be given credit for giving the masterful performance one expects of him. McKellan takes a character whom the audience almost instinctively rejects and makes him immensely intriguing, even appealing. Of course, Dussander also becomes appealing to his counterpart, Todd Bowden (Brad Renfro), a high school...
Whitman also chided the American public for their apparent willingness to condone Clinton. She said that America is "indulging in a false sense of complacency," and that "character does count."