Word: conceitedness
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The program featured a wide-mix of dance and music styles, giving even the most dance-illiterate audience member a general idea of the broad scope and long tradition of dance. "Pas de Quarter," the first piece on the program, spotlighted a lovely quartet of rose-bedecked ballerinas drenched in...
What concerns me most is that Ciollo is the co-captain of his team. All athletes serve as ambassadors for our school and, as captain, Ciollo is the specific center of attention. His choice words serve to reinforce the stereotype that all Harvard students are obnoxious, conceited, and generally insufferable...
Noah I. Dauber's "Let Boarding Schools Bow Out Gracefully" (opinion, Nov. 16) gives a distorted, unfounded and altogether ignorant account of modern boarding schools. While he criticizes David Hicks (the former rector of the boarding school I attended, St Paul's) for demonizing the self-interests of teenagers, Dauber...
With the perspective I have gained as a Harvard student, I now feel that there is some basis for the stereotypes which my co-workers had succumbed to. Of course, most Harvard students do not fit this image of individual arrogance. The basis of this outside stereotype comes mostly from...
Unfortunately, it is this moral dimension of the story which Michell's film is least able to convey. In Amanda Root's Anne, for example, the sense of an active critical mind is often missing. Anne seems so afflicted, so desperate, that we rarely feel that she is her family...