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...little encouragement to potential students Sprinkled throughout the application are grim warnings about the necessity for extreme self-motivation and perseverance for a successful Special Concentration. The warnings stress the extreme aggressiveness students will need, implying that any failure of special program stems from the student's own insufficient endeavor--not from Harvard's perversity is making the option so difficult...
...bringing vemacular to the American stage, he set many of his plays in backgrounds that demanded specific U.S. regional dialects. His ease with language, his imaginative use of sound, light and gesture, his bold experimentation with expressionism and realism and his personal, emotional appeal made American theater a serious endeavor...
...interest in undergraduate society--in and out of the classroom. An administrator who goes out of his way to meet and assist students. Marquand believes that Harvard suffers from the unreasonably high expectations of students who come here anticipating the best education on earth and instant gratification in every endeavor. Once they discover the school's idiosyncrasies, students begin parroting the age-old complaints: "Classes too big, no one to tell my troubles to, departments impersonal...squawk!" With experience, most learn that a little personal initiative goes a long way, and they graduate less starry-eyed but without calamity...
...become a much bigger one, the General Motors of the world's opera companies. A Wall Street lawyer by profession, with close connections to moneyed New York society, Bliss has brought the practices of modern business management to what is, and will always remain, an artistic endeavor...
...Collegium is sponsored in the endeavor by the parents of Karen Avra Gordon '84, who died last year and was a member of Hillel. Her father (Professor of Chemistry Roy Gordon) and mother mean to sponsor a religious or Israeli musical event each term for the next several years...