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...gnome of Old Nassau is aggrieved. A student named Matthew Eastwick has thrown an errant pass, bouncing a basketball off another student's ankle. Knowing that Eastwick had scored perfect 800s on his College Board entrance tests merely compounds the gravity of this sin in the gnome's considered opinion. He dances past the offender, arms flapping, and plants the lance. "Eastie, Eastie," he rasps, in a voice that is part James Cagney, part Peter Lorre, part Bethlehem, Pa., "didja get someone else to take your College Boards for ya? Didja?" Eastwick stands transfixed, while his tormentor teeters (Could this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETE CARRIL: This Coach Stalks Overdogs | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

...Tenure was originally invented to protect radical professors, those who challenged the accepted order," says fictional Professor of Psychometrics Angus M. McCrimmon to the young hero of the story, Marvin. But, he warns this academic errant...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: A Professor Tenured: | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

Carleton, Siedlecki and music director Keith Kessler deserve credit for undertaking such an ambitious project. But the production is uninspired, and allows the emcees to upstage even Cole Porter himself. Despite some good individual performances, Nymph Errant goes astray...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: Porter's Aged Nymph Goes Astray at Harvard | 1/12/1990 | See Source »

While some students are trying to revive their grades for this semester, a group of thespians is trying to mount a stage revival of Cole Porter's obscure 57 year-old musical, Nymph Errant...

Author: By Mark N. Templeton, | Title: Production Fraught With Difficulties | 1/12/1990 | See Source »

Because the musical had not been fully staged since 1933, Nymph Errant's music had to be rescored, and its script updated for a '90s audience...

Author: By Mark N. Templeton, | Title: Production Fraught With Difficulties | 1/12/1990 | See Source »

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