Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leverett House production overcomes this difficulty as well. Both Kevin Costin, who plays Jesus, and Sarah Beatty, as Mary Magdalene, have extraordinary voices, and clever use of microphones helps the other actors compensate for what nature failed to provide...
...because they don't even bother to try to come here. They know that they wouldn't make the grade, they know they wouldn't fit in. And when dumb people do come here, we generously instruct them. The smartest Harvard students and professors rally to the cause. With clever phrases and melodious hymns we gracefully expose their abysmal dumbness and assert our intellectual primacy. In this way either we gently persuade them and borderline students into being smart or we succeed in keeping them and their dumb ideas away...
...latest triumph of our quality control is the case of Jeane Kirkpatrick. Last week the Republican Club, itself marginal, asked her to speak here at Harvard. Without hesitation she declined. Why? She made it clear that she wouldn't appreciate our instructive hymns and clever slogans during her speeches. She actually questioned the good taste of this tradition. Imagine that! In short, she was too dumb--or rather too smart--no, too dumb to come. Well, at least she knows that if one doesn't have anything smart to say, one shouldn't come to Harvard. Old Cap Weinberger didn...
...Cleary: "Clever. So, does this mean I won't get my NCAA Championship...
Staging a play at the Adams House swimming pool is a clever idea, though the lighting there is so bad that it is difficult to see even the actors' facial expressions. The actors do get to jump in the pool occasionally and thrash about on innertubes and rubber rafts. Its mildly amusing, as is the production's Joan Crawford-sized obsession with coat hangers...