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...shattering every jock stereotype. He is serious about his studies (history major, solid B-plus average), radical in his politics, reclusive in his lifestyle, contemptuous of money and luxury. So fierce is his sense of individualism that he says that he will not turn pro when he gets his diploma next month unless he can play in Southern California. "Living," he says, "is more important than playing...
With the end of the season, Matson will go on to other pursuits this winter, maybe even studying. But her efforts to elevate Radcliffe field hockey to the level of other Harvard sports will continue until she leaves Harvard with her diploma and a large debt owed her by future Radcliffe field hockey players...
...Davin, 25, comes from a similar working class background--he is the only one of six children to finish high school. He came to Cambridge with only a junior college certificate, became involved in education, and became a candidate for degree at Harvard School of Education without a college diploma. He has taught at the alternative Cambridge Community High School and now edits Centerpeace, New England's only free school periodical. He is unique in drawing the personal endorsement of Jonathan Kozol, author of Death at an Early Age and Free Schools. He aims at radical reform of the school...
Competition for the movie's worst moment is fierce. Young's recurring character, a hippie graduated from college, wandering the roads, the deserts and beaches with grimy diploma and tattered cap and gown in hand, is a symbol--do you get it?--of America's unfulfilled youth. Picture, if you can, the affluent but over-schooled, over-technologized, overburdened young man cast from the best university like a body thrown from a car--which occurs on screen, believe it or not--into a landscape where society has eroded nature's richness. No one gives him directions. No one gives...
...cancels it to research a supplement for Kingsfield's new book. They fight again--in a supermarket this time. Susan tells Hart that he's taking school too seriously, that he's just chasing a piece of paper, nothing more. Waving a roll of toilet paper, she says his diploma is just another kind of paper, "no different from this...