Word: ethically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most foreign students are a little shocked by the competitive American ethic that is exhibited in the pre-med syndrome. Gikas Hardouvelis '78, from Greece, says he never had to compete for anything before he came here, and says he finds it hard to accept competition as a way of life. Elena Granaglia '79, from Italy, says she just ignores the competition, and hopes to avoid becoming the kind of student that learns nothing but how to get good grades...
...collection of ill-constructed barracks at Manzanar into something resembling a community, of the conflicts between those who counseled open rebellion against their absurd imprisonment and those who advised patience. The Spirit at Manzanar became a dignified resistance in which individuality was not sacrificed to the survivor's ethic. The story, in which a family called the Wakatsukis endures in a short span most of life's large experiences (birth, death, new love, even madness), never seems forced or schematic. The result is a work that is modest and touching and refreshingly free of melodrama...
...harmless arena of culture, which it has dominated since the late 19th century. The anti-capitalism of American avant-garde artists, writers, intellectuals and even Greenwich Village is a result of the individual's refusal to subordinate the myth of liberalism--the individual's total freedom--to the Protestant ethic of the unfree work-place...
THERE may be only one winner, but there will be no losers," explains the wily M.C. in Bicentennial Follies. "We all compete, and one of us rises to the top." In this musical assault on the much-maligned American ethic, several different dramatic modes and perspectives do in fact compete; unfortunately, when parody dips into absurdism and crescendoes finally into tragedy, it's mainly confusion which comes out on top. As a result, although there's more than one winner in this baffling revue cum drama--including a strong cast and some genuinely moving numbers--the show as a whole...
...show begins in a straightforward satiric vein, using the vehicle of a "Miss or Mr. American Talent" pageant to mock American commercialism and the competitive ethic. When the slimy, selfindulgent M.C. introduces the six stereotypical contestants, all familiarly insipid, we remain anchored in the comfortable world of parody. With the song "An Atypical American Family," however, parody is replaced by a rude inversion of values; to the music of "Mame," a brother who pulls wings off flies and a sister who carries a onearmed doll confess their mutual hatred in starkly unfunny terms. A similarly violent mood underlies "The Hard...