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...trappings of a Woody Allen movie, particularly reminiscent of Sleeper in its science-fiction silliness, and it's no wonder--Brickman collaborated on Sleeper, as well as Annie Hall and Manhattan. Both moviemakers tend toward the intellectual, so it comes as no surprise that Brickman's characters cite Wittgenstein. But Allen's products are by far the more polished of the two; Brickman often has wonderful ideas that just don't quite come through on screen...
...necessary to combat the individualism that he believes is at the root of most disorders in contemporary America. Attitudes must change so that families no longer put old people into nursing homes and young people no longer need to seek surrogate families by joining cults, Marglin says, to cite two modern examples of the negative effects of individualism. "Compare how our society treats the old in terms of dignity and prestige with how so-called underdeveloped nations like India treats them. This is a problem no increase in GNP can possibly solve...
...mice began appearing about two months ago, and although many students and proctor Enrique Hernandez Jr. '77 cite construction in Harvard Square and cold weather as possible causes, no one is sure why Weld's mice population has suddenly boomed...
...sentence paragraphs dot the book. By the seventh or eighth time, they don't seem dramatic, just disconcerting. And she's far too fond of inserting quotations. Not quotations from contemporary sources--no one can object to those-but quotations drawn from the great literature of Western Europe. To cite Alexander Pope's description of the court of Charles II, written 50 years after Charles's death, is barely acceptable; quoting Dante on poverty to describe what Charles went through in years of exile is not. She has at least the grace to translate the Italian, which she does...
Many coaches cite the example of Stanford as a school having similar admissions standards but also having an allotment of athletic scholarships...