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When Meg and Babe have their first moments alone, Meg is able to draw out Babe's darkest secrets, down to the moment when she shot her husband Zachary. Taylor's Babe is mousy and quirky, perfectly genteel if false in her most controlled moments and hauntingly lucid in her moments of insanity. She makes the tale of shooting her husband sound as normal as going to the grocery--an effect which makes it only more disturbing, and more realistic. Babe's obsession with suicide makes her seem only marginally sane, yet the profound truths she uncovers in her wildest...
Last Sunday's spectacular Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) concert on the Boston Common surprised no one. This free performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on the genteel Boston Common was a fitting tribute to BSO conductor Seiji Ozawa, whose 25th year with the orchestra it celebrated...
...former owner of the Sunnymede Mansion at 2 Old Glen Road was a genteel British woman, an Old World type who raised horses on the grounds and decorated its interior with Victorian furniture. She often invited neighbors over for tea and cucumber sandwiches, impressing them with her upper-crust authenticity. "She was such a lovely lady," says Elizabeth Smith, who lives just down the street. But a few years ago, the house changed hands, and last week the neighborhood learned that the current owner had, according to police, converted the beloved estate into an equally well-regarded bordello...
...further from either bland escapism or Imagist stylization than the music-hall syncopation ("O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag") and the pub vulgarity ("What you get married for if you don't want children") of The Waste Land. Eliot's poem went off like a bomb in a genteel drawing-room, as he intended...
...soul, adroit psychological counseling--evidence of a caring in loco parentis--being somehow distasteful and undignified to the institution of Harvard, and this ironically at the very point students are crossing that emotional minefield between adolescence and young man--or womanhood. Harvard's famous house system, however appealingly genteel, addresses neither of these gaps and remains grossly inadequate to undergraduate needs, the ratio of students to master being far too huge and the accident of a happy match between student and master being far too uncommon. Is this the environment to which we would unreservedly consign undergraduate women...