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...mail from Mather House Co-Masters Sandra Naddaff ’75 and Leigh Hafrey ’73 promised residents a bonus open house “with extra sushi” if 75 percent of students participate. The e-mail urged Matherites to “Do it for Mather...
...wonder the onlookers gasped and giggled. They knew they were present for a cultural sea change; and their animosity was a necessary impediment for the invader to overcome. Exactly the same abrasion is evident in the 1951 film of "A Streetcar Named Desire," in the moment when Vivien Leigh's fluttery Blanche duBois is first confronted with Brando's brutish Stanley Kowalski. It is the instant, epochal collision of old and new, of refinement and feral energy, of a sensibility on the way out and an attitude crashing through, ready to take over...
...also boasts the finest stage rendition I've seen of "A Streetcar Named Desire," with Glenn Close as Tennessee Williams' fractured heroine Blanche duBois. Physically, Close seems wrong: she is pointy of face, sinewy of frame. She lacks those soft features that Blanche wants caressed by soft lights; Vivien Leigh's lingering luster, in the first London production and in the 1951 movie, convinced audiences well into the third act that Blanche was right about the world, and the brute Stanley Kowalski (Brando) was wrong. Close's angularity telegraphs from her first entrance that Blanche is not who she wants...
...example, some athletes hold unnecessarily dismal views of their classmates. Varsity crew team member Leigh K. Pascavage ’04 asserted in a Crimson op-ed that “the Harvard athlete protects Harvard from being populated entirely by people who spend their afternoons in the library...
...Leigh K. Pascavage ’04 is a government concentrator in Lowell House. She is a member of the varsity crew team...