Word: dad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...living at below-subsistence level, where Ph.D.s cannot get jobs in their fields, whose soldiers have more trouble with drugs than with the enemy, where black people are still shot in the street, where prices are skyrocketing, you show us a happy WASP family living in its ivory tower. Dad must be proud...
Clyde was not impressed. "We can seat more than that," he drawled. "Dad? Dad, can't we seat more than that? Can't we seat 46,000?" Then Clyde paused a minute before throwing out a final thought. "And I'll bet we could beat the pants off of those boys from Harvard...
...wander around the place, not exactly at home but definitely in control of the situation. Michael, with the loveliest, fullest, twelve-year-old Afro you'll hope to see, has the history of the group down pat: "We all started singing together after Tito started messin' with Dad's guitar and singin' with the radio. It was Tito decided we should form a group, and we did, and we practiced a lot, and then we started entering talent shows, and we won every one we entered, and then we did this benefit for the mayor [Richard...
...what about me? I went to college for four years for this? What am I doing here? Well, my father says it's a learning experience. My mom says come home and I'll fix up your room. My room was fine the way it was. Dad is closer- my experience at the CRIMSON does contain a smattering of the real world. There are people who want to make sure that "negroes" do not answer their classified ad, and people who place ads that would appall even the mildest feminist. But if I wanted the real world would I have...
...whole, however, the film is quite honest, certainly more so than most of the college recruiting genre. (I remember seeing one about Brown, a flashback affair concerning a close-cropped kid in white socks sitting on the library steps writing a letter home to Mom and Dad. Princeton that year toured with a 45-minute Howard Cosell-esque masterpiece about the basketball career of Bill Bradley.) There are some wonderful classroom scenes and a great interview with a freshman playing catch in the Yard, his pithy comments about the variety of options open to a Harvard student metered...