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...American life, their many-colored pallet congeals into a brown blob. Particularly offensive are the overheated but not well done comments on sex change operations, the welfare system, and rugged individualism. In one scene, Jane's father refuses to lend money because he worships an icon of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the promoter of self-reliance. Here, the humor is too forced to be incisive or even amusing...
...Luis Tiant--all unintelligible delights. David Levi as Sonya Vabitsche looks like a very funny lab sample of Venereal Disease germs and David Merrill as Ophelia Heartbeat is a knockout. The rest of the cast works well, too. But an extension of this paragraph must go to Japes Emerson, who plays Cardinal Cynne. Leering with the shifty paranoia of a male Jane Curtin, Emerson moves, under his clerical robes and Rasputin beard, with a pneumatic grace and, except for a deficient malevolent laugh, his voice is the silky articulator of a deft cartoon of nastiness. When, after Emerson and Levi...
...Emerson 105 is filled to overflowing during History 1711, "The United States and East Asia," another Fairbank course. Mary Parson '78 said yesterday that large first-day crowds reflected the course's popularity and encouraged even more students to enroll later...
Whether from Wilson, Emerson, or the honeybee, the message is the same: know what you have, and use it. To properly manage the colony of 100 trillion brain, muscle and skin cells entrusted to you (more than all the people that will ever enrich the earth's soil) is a divine task, and the unique privilege of being human. Alan White...
Sometimes when Emerson approached Americans whose husbands or sons had died in the war, she discovered what every cub police reporter finds -the survivors' numbness, an element of blank, nothing much to say. All of the Viet Nam decade, of course, was filled with grotesqueries, wild ricochets of irony. Emerson recalls the case of a poetic 22-year-old private whose job it was to compose elaborate-and totally fictitious-battle citations for senior officers who wished to leave Viet Nam with a Silver Star. The secretary of a local draft board in Gordonsville. Tenn. tells Emerson: "Five died...