Word: dilettantishly
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...clocks? Where, praytell, is our spring fever, our raging hormones? Ah, you reply, this is Harvard and we forego such pleasures. After all, everyone knows there's no sex here. But to say that Harvard students are sexually repressed is platitudinous. For many years, Harvard's tireless cadre of dilettantish social critics and pseudo-intellectual newspaper columnists have decried the lack of "healthy" sexual activity at the College. Even the venerable New York Times jumped on the bandwagon. In a recent article on megatrends in college dating, the Times pointed to the "atrophied social skills" of students at elite universities...
...their mid-40s when the decade of the 1980s dawns, provide a focus for Drabble's tumultuous plot: Liz Headleand, twice married and a successful psychotherapist; Alix Bowen, ditto and a believer in socially useful work like teaching English literature to female criminals; Esther Breuer, unmarried and a dilettantish specialist in the early Italian Renaissance. Although they have taken different paths, Liz, Alix and Esther share a long friendship and common bonds dating back to their student days at Cambridge in the 1950s. "These three women," Drabble notes, "it will readily and perhaps with some irritation be perceived, were amongst...
...format of Aromarama--a joke here, some slides there--just doesn't hang together. The production is a confusing forum for Rubenstein's dilettantish fancies. It's a good thing his photographic forte is the centerpiece...
HARVARD'S NEWEST and smallest vocal group may be nuovi, but it isn't dilettantish. Its members have chosen to specialize in music of the Renaissance--music which demands prodigious energy and concentration from the performers--and none of the shortcomings of their concert debut last week at Lowell House could hide a near-professional sensitivity to nuance and detail...
...that is what really bothers me about Harvard. I think ultimately Harvard has to make up its mind whether it wants to take drama seriously or whether it just wants to maintain a kind of dilettantish attitude and just allow people to amuse themselves, which appears to be what is happening at the moment. But it has the Loeb, which is a considerable building. If it didn't have this building, it would probably be much easier. Because this building demands a certain amount of standard, Harvard is being forced to take a slightly professional attitude when it doesn...