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With witty, lightweight songs by William Finn (March of the Falsettos), the show is, first of all, a funny spoof of the rituals of these contests--from the up-close-and-personal commentary, delivered in earnest half-whisper by the moderator ("Mr. Barfee has a sea anemone circus in his basement"), to the ridiculously unhelpful sentences meant to put the words in context ("Sally's mother told her it was her cystitis that made her special"). The show also, more distractingly, partakes in the current Broadway fad of audience participation: four civilians each night are selected to go onstage...
...only that, the UC seeks to distinguish collegiate life today from the antiquated schedules set generations ago for students who were living in a different era. Just as our work on Harvard College Libraries sought the input and involvement of the student body through surveys, future initiatives require the earnest effort on the part of the UC to translate student realities and student concerns to those people who run this College. Just as students shape their lives to the institutions at Harvard, so too administrators would do a service in continuing to accommodate Harvard facilities to the needs...
...that Foer--it's one syllable, "like the number four"--isn't funny and charming, because he is. But there's something deeply, essentially earnest about him. Gone are the bow ties: he dresses to disappear, in a gray sweater and blue jeans. He is neither hip nor cool. Skinny and delicately handsome, he looks even younger than he is. He doesn't go out. He is a vegetarian...
Looking at this earnest, fiercely determined, hugely ambitious writer, who at 28 already has two better-than-solid novels out and who is only getting better, you have to wonder what happened to the glittery, bow-tie-wearing little boy he used to be. "When I was younger, I wore it all on my sleeve," Foer says. "I think writing helped me change that because it was another way of showing myself." So, is mini-Liberace gone forever? Just for a micro-second, so that you almost miss it, the sober demeanor is gone, and Foer lets himself look...
Before the national championship rolls around, Harvard must face the conference tournament, which begins in earnest this Friday. An active final weekend to college hockey’s regular season set the fields for these events, while the ECAC action was of special interest to Harvard, which hosts Clarkson in the opening round...