Word: isabel
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...recounts Frances Isabel Smith '99, who is the granddaughter of Dennison...
Daniel K. Biss '98 of Dunster House, Charlene S. Ahn '98 and Rhiju Das '98 of Lowell, Jonathan L. Weinstein '98-'97 of Pforzheimer, Supinda Bunyavanich '99-98 of Quincy and Isabel K. Reichardt '98-'97 of Winthrop all netted awards this year...
Social science, however, is an imperfect discipline. Referring to programs for young children, Isabel Sawhill, a scholar at the Urban Institute and former official in the Clinton Administration, has written, "The evidence is always mixed. We simply do not know whether they work. In these cases, one must weigh the risk of doing something and having it not work against the risk of doing nothing and missing an opportunity to improve lives. It can be just as costly to not fund a potentially successful program as it is to fund a potentially unsuccessful...
These questions are inherent in the book as well, but there is more psychological penetration in James than in Campion, even if the same ambiguities remain. Watching the film, you may wonder once or twice whether there isn't a strain of masochism underlying Isabel's sexuality--or vice versa...
...other hand, the character of the superlatively cultured and corrupted Madame Merle, Osmond's female counterpart and ally, is as complex as Isabel's yet far more comprehensible and as effectively conveyed, if not more so, in the film by Campion as in the book. The rest of the acting is good as well, though Malkovich's Osmond is a bit too repulsive to convince us that Isabel could ever have fallen...