Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fate. Williams could not achieve that exalting serenity of vision. "Hell is yourself," he said more than once, and the only redemption he knew of was "when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person." In the finest moments of his finest plays, Williams achieves the lesser, but genuine, catharsis of self-transcendence. In breaking out of the imprisoning cycle of self-concern, the playwright and his characters evoke a line from Ecclesiastes: "To him that is joined to all the living there is hope...
...aquamen's momentum was short lived as Yale came back in the following two events to give Harvard its closest call at home this season. In the 1000 free, Eli senior Mark Loftis battled Courtney Roberts for 40 pool lengths, editing out a 1/100 of a second win a lesser margin than that of the victor in both sprint events...
...facts of life, albeit a lesser one: the hardest person for a teen-ager to talk to about sex is a parent. Dealing with that reality is difficult enough as it is. But now the Federal Government, and thus the courts, have fallen into this generational communication...
Involuntary off-campus students experience, to a greater or lesser degree depending on personality and circumstance, an isolation from the Harvard community. As members of Dudley House they belong to a strangely amorphous group of undergraduates which is split between those who for one reason or another have chosen to live out-side the College and those who have been forced to do so. The former rarely seek association within the House, and the latter, resentful of the stigma of the outcast, tend to stay away unless forced to visit for administrative reasons...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH'S GANDHI is probably as morally simple a work as one is likely to see in a movie theater today. In essence, it is a piece of allegory of the lesser kind. It relies on the viewer's allying himself with the moral forces and ideas represented by a single character instead of identifying and sympathizing with a character's complex attitudes, thoughts and feelings as a more realistic work would demand. Given this simplicity, Gandhi still succeeds and entertains--almost certainly as well as a movie of its kind could...