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...Freshman Cliff Nguyen was dominant in his match at No. 2 singles. Nguyen came away with a 6-3, 6-0 victory that put the Crimson...
...Several minutes later the Bears got their first point in the match when Malone beat freshman Cliff Nguyen at No. 2 singles...
Rose is a dreamer who reacts to the harshness of life by avoiding it, but Cliff chooses instead to attack. “It’s a rough tough world, and if you want to survive, you got to be tough.” Both characters are lost souls in a world that doesn’t seem to have room for them. Yet, by seeking comfort in one another’s presence, they eventually find hope in an otherwise dismal life. After much arguing between them, and after many bitter monologues, the two seem ready to accept...
...Cliff infuses her puritanical and fantastical world with a gritty bit of real life. He smokes and drinks unabashedly, treats her like a woman and philosophizes in a layman’s way about such lofty subjects as freedom and guilt. He shatters her system of values with such statements as, “Maybe she did the right thing, maybe she’s happy now,” when commenting on the previous tenant’s suicide, and enrages Rose so much throughout the course of the play that he actually gets her to swear...
...afraid Ms. Gordimer just doesn't get it. Her hilariously self-righteous response - which reads like the sort of pretentious literary description that the book would get in Cliff Notes - shows that her own attitudes are as anachronistic as the idea of the noble savage. "The black servant takes full responsibility for the couple," she writes, "sheltering them among his own people; even if students miss the irony of the reversal of dependence - white now dependent on black - this act of non-racial human feeling and tolerance is glaringly evident...