Word: latters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This production of The Merchant of Venice runs three hours. So does the final exam for Lit and Arts A-40. "Shakespeare." Opt for the latter...
...think of a number of reasons for giving out a lot of honors degrees come each June, from making a lot of people happy to giving Harvard students better positioning in the post-graduation job competition. The former proposition is absurd, the latter dubious; it is unlikely that a potential employer would weigh the designation cum laude on a resume above all the other characteristics a student would bring to the job, specially if the transcript accompanying the resume is full of E-pluses or B-minuses...
...give the public what they want," Tartikoff says. "I'm more interested in giving them what they will want. I like to challenge the audience. That's not to say that you don't do your share of pandering." Some would place in the latter category NBC's mass-appeal show The A-Team, which was based on an idea Tartikoff hatched after meeting Mr. T at a boxing match. He came into the office one day and wrote a note: "A-Team. Magnificent Seven, Dirty Dozen, Mission Impossible, Road Warrior all rolled into...
...book's most elucidating portraits is that given of the influential and psychologically loaded relationship that developed between John and Fred Cheever. After Fred graduated college, the two began living together in Boston, with Fred supporting his kid brother until the latter broke the ice as a writer. The attachment conjured up some pretty strong feelings for John, who soon felt compelled to cut the arrangement short. As Cheever later told his daughter, his love for his brother was the most complicated and powerful in his life: "When it became apparent that it was an ungainly closeness, I packed...
...fault in that incident lie with those who, stumbling accidently on what was clearly a private missive, chose to make it public? Do we want to encourage eavesdropping in an effort to cleanse the College of salaciousness? I find the former almost always offensive, while I often enjoy the latter (though not in the case of the Pi Eta's gross letter.) E. L. Pattullo