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...House boasts a large stock of single rooms. Gracious common rooms abound, and with an underground theater and large JCR (complete with stage), Cabot is an attractive locus for dramatic productions. New masters James H. and Janice Ware bring a scientific bend to the House--the former is academic dean at the school of public health, the latter: an instructor in psychology...
...House boasts an active Senior Common Room; Faculty affiliates are rewarded with High Table, a dining experience The Crimson once termed "grotesquely ridiculous." Masters Diana L. Eck and Dorothy A. Austin have been widely praised for carrying on the traditions of their 23-year famed predecessors, the Bosserts. Still, Eck has been known to cut loose; at a House karaoke night last semester, the professor of comparative religion and Indian studies belted out "Heartbreak Hotel...
...House boasts a large stock of single rooms. Gracious common rooms abound, and with an underground theater and large JCR (complete with stage), Cabot is an attractive locus for dramatic productions. New masters James H. and Janice Ware bring a scientific bend to the House--the former is academic dean at the school of public health, the latter: an instructor in psychology...
...House boasts an especially active Senior Common Room, whose talents the masters enlist to advise House residents. Faculty affiliates are rewarded with High Table, a dining experience The Crimson once termed "grotesquely ridiculous." Masters Diana L. Eck and Dorothy A. Austin have been widely praised for carrying on the traditions of their 23-year famed predecessors, the Bosserts. Still, Eck has been known to cut loose; at a House karaoke night last semester, the professor of comparative religion and Indian studies belted out "Heartbreak Hotel...
Seemingly independent of each other, reuniting only for Christmas, these entirely estranged people are linked by their common past and by genetic inescapability symbolized by their individual manifestations of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Martin deftly uses OCD (By no means a glaring theme within the book) to represent the complex, unavoidable and often tragic ties that bind families. Except for dutifully doing what she is told, Keelin seems to be unaffected by the disorder. Her brother Patrick, however, develops from a boy so fixated by his own sinfulness that the priest complains about his overly frequent confessions into a latex...