Word: guts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Actually, arranging freshman rooming groups is a month-long project in social engineering. While most colleges rely on a random computer selection process. Harvard's plan is much more personal. Using gut instinct, information from the "Application for Rooms" submitted by each student, and a host of other assorted admissions data, six ordinary, subjective human beings spend the month of July pairing, tripling and quadrupling roommates...
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...quotable quotes." None happens to be included in the novel, but Christian obviously has some way with words: "Too many people are so busy earning salvation in the next life that they only end by screwing this one up." Listening to such remarks, Judith experiences strange sensations indeed: "Her gut was crawling, shivering horrific tides of joy washed higher and higher up the shores of her mind...
Directors Chang and Levendosky have taken on an ambitious first-time directorial effort. But while they coordinate a great mass of movement and drama, the play rarely hits the audience in the gut as hard as it seemingly tries to. Taken together, the music, songs, and soliloquies are more potent than the "shocking" depictions of rape, murder, and drug-dealing, which do not deliver much emotional impact; the mannerisms of the actors seem too rough and harsh, their earnestness and suffering too histrionic...
...ACSR hearings on the issue, hundreds of students packed the hall to denounce the Corporation's proposal. The ACSR voted it down again, and the Corporation finally gave up their attempt to gut the bank loan policy...