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...Class participation in Senior Preceptor Marlies K. Mueller's popular Foreign Cultures 22: "La critique sociale a travers l'humour," is based on in-class skits, dialogues and enthusiasm. In math-oriented Science cores, it is often based on showing up to section and turning in homework assignments...
What makes Unprotected's sex talk work is that it rises above the level of moronic frat-boy humour. It's not that the album is afraid of the scatological (Schimmel describes an exchange between his wife and himself: "Maybe you suffer from premature ejaculation." "Does it look like I'm suffering? Those aren't tears on your belly."). It's that the album isn't potty-mouthed for its own sake (hello, South Park). It focuses on Schimmel's family life, and its central point is our common insecurities about sex and the absurdities they drive us to: peeking...
...Ph.D student Vernon Eagle appears as the foppish and formal Admiral, resembling a more refined Mr. Bean, and Susan Long '02 provides a tongue-in-cheek performance as the bawdy but compassionate Buttercup. All the principal characters acquit themselves well with a good dose of self-awareness and ample humour, but the real star of the show is firstyear Kathleen Stetson. As the unwillingly betrothed Josephine, Stetson is simply luminous. From the melancholic torch songs of "Sorry Her Lot" and "The Hours Creep on Apace" to her puckish asides before and during "Refrain Audacious Tar", she has a positively radiant...
Using poems of metrical dexterity that are filled with wit, subtle humour and a vast vocabulary, Hollander brings many common poetic themes to light in Figurehead in admittedly startling forms. Experimenting with various meters, dictions and forms, Hollander's poems continually strive to discover, in the process, the perfect poetic language (or what Hollander terms "the back room of meaning...
...find an interesting fourth course, just follow attractive people to their classes and base your decision to enroll on how well your chat-up lines work. Try, "Would you mind showing me your Derrida?" for lit majors. They've got fabulous senses of humour...