Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ingenuity prevailed. After all isn't that what college is all about...
...beauty and a complexity which belie her naive exterior. The movie is lushly beautiful. Jeff Wolpert's Laurie Anderson-type music is as entrancing and quirky as Rozema's heroine. The sights and sounds transform the movie into a peculiar world that belongs only to Polly. As she says, "Isn't life the strangest thing you ever...
...live now isn't that different from how I lived here as a child," says Nora, 36, whose great-great-great-grandfather on her father's side settled in the valley in the early 1800s to work the local gold mine, and whose great-great-grandfather on her mother's side was shot in the back delivering mail for the Pony Express...
...believes single-sex institutions play an important role by contributing to a pluralistic approach to education. She frets about the sameness of so many American colleges: "There aren't many institutions anymore that have a very clear image." Futter concurs, "We are dealing with an increasingly franchised commodity. This isn't hamburgers; this is education." Finally, educational leaders are far from convinced that the women's movement has erased the prejudices that gave rise to women's colleges in the first place. "Maybe there will come a day when women and men will be able to work equally professionally across...
...Abby Shapiro '90 agrees that parties in dorm rooms appeal to her more than does a bar scene. "It doesn't seem to me that there is a real campus bar crowd. There isn't a lot of public alcohol, and there aren't any frats or campus funded alcohol events. Going to bars is expensive, too. So I just tend to hang out here with my friends...