Word: echo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...transatlantic wanderings in Cambridge echo the journeys in Phillips' other writings. In his work, people retrace almost obsessively the old routes of the triangle trade linking Britain to the Americas and Africa. For Phillips, these voyages are not matters of the remote past but pressing concerns for today; the facts of empire and slavery determined the political shape of much of the contemporary world...
...this theme of sentimental education and extends it past the age of anxiety into a kind of perpetual present tense, where lessons learned lead only to renewed uncertainty. Death of a Train has a real undertow of prairie melancholy, and The Unbreakable Chain is a little like a Lanois echo of Series of Dreams, a rhythmic rumination on the elisions of fantasy and desire...
...they there to counsel students? From ECHO to contact to PCC, Harvard already has a myraid of full-service counseling operations that are specifically set upto deal with the most common and compelling problems which students face, Is a student with an eating disorder more likely to turn to a trained peer counselor or a cranky statistics grad student with a dissertation chapter due the next...
...liberating flights of fancy. The production has no style, no look, no distinctive flavor or texture or sound. And it constantly brings to mind better shows: a transvestite Richard III pales beside the Crummles troupe in Nicholas Nickleby; dancers costumed as forbidden foods on a TV diet show feebly echo the You Gotta Have a Gimmick number from Gypsy...
...other professors echo Tate's sentiment. Conscious of their small numbers, they are well-acquainted with the responsibilities that can fall on their shoulders in an institution striving for diverse representation on many issues...