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...Harvard Crimson alumni association. Peggy Noonan in her best-selling White House memoir, What I Saw at the Revolution, loudly complains that her colleagues in the Reagan Administration "were always asking me what college I went to." Noonan, sensitive to the status slights that accompany her Fairleigh Dickinson degree, theorizes that in a fluid environment like the White House, people pop the Ivy League question to categorize one another while simultaneously underscoring their own importance, as in "Yes, she does seem bright; she went to Radcliffe, but before my wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Confessions of An Ivy League Reject | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

Abandoned by all except his loyal servant (Laurent Ruseckas), the Frog Prince wanders through the forest, seeking a woman who will kiss and restore him to his human form. He chooses the beautiful milkmaid (Laura Dickinson), living nearby, as his target...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Telling Fairy Tales | 4/13/1990 | See Source »

Particularly well-done is the scene in which the Frog Prince proposes, in frog form, to the milkmaid. Dickinson treats his ludicrous romantic proposals with the deepest seriousness. In contrast with Dickinson's straightforward dealings with people, Dawson's own seem particularly disingenuous...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Telling Fairy Tales | 4/13/1990 | See Source »

...pseudo-profound milkmaid, Dickinson gives another of the play's outstanding performances. Her character is just daffy enough, gazing off and batting her eyelashes when she declares, "Life is such a mystery." While the milkmaid is essentially a one-note role, Dickinson keeps her surfer-girl facial expressions varied and amusing...

Author: By Adam E. Pachter, | Title: Telling Fairy Tales | 4/13/1990 | See Source »

Against Fairleigh Dickinson, which fell to Penn in a tiebreaker, Neuhardt and Kosch each won two bouts...

Author: By Kevin Toh, | Title: Penn Plasters Harvard Fencers | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

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