Word: fops
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like many other poetic legends, it is only half true. Rilke was infected by a thorn in 1926, the last year of his life, but he died of leukemia. Even more misleading is the enduring impression of a precious, hypersensitive fop...
...came on board for a star trip, his Mr. Christian took the helm, dramatically speaking, long before his character, leading the mutineers, had seized it. Though Brando was chastised by critics for his excesses, there was something brave in his giddy decision to play the role as a mincing fop who warms to liberal consciousness when he contrasts the rigors of sailing under Bligh with the delights of their long, languorous layover in Tahiti. Inevitably the shades of these wild, rich performances (and the fantasy of what might have been had they been combined in a single film) hover over...
Fifteen regular leaders, most of whom are Harvard students, work with the program. Many also participate as leaders in the Freshman Outdoor 'Program--FOP--and are thus trained in CPR and First Aid, according to co-director Michael D. Samols '86. On every trip, says Samols, there is one leader who is trained in both--and he says that next year each will probably be required to undergo training. Because of this, and because parents must sign a permission form, the group can undertake a wide variety of activities...
Samols says that while most of the leaders have come through word of mouth and that the program has not done any publicity or advertising, he plans to announce it next year to FOP leaders and freshmen who participate in FOP to bolster the leadership...
Both actors develop their characters particularly nicely in a scene in which the couple participates in an amateur production of Strinberg's The Father. The rehearsals are directed by an eccentric, egotistical fop (Jon Finlayson) who makes Patricia into his new protege and who takes the play so seriously that its absurdity is hysterical rather than pathetic...