Word: louts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jacksonian democracy, but it was more open than Harvard. Sociologist David Riesman (Harvard '33) describes the differences during his undergraduate days, writing that at Yale, membership in secret societies was based on personal characteristics, but "at Harvard, it was ascribed not achieved. No matter how much of a lout you were you could get in a final club [with connections]. There wasn't anything you could do by effort...
...Berger to endow some of his most unappealing characters with vitality and strength. Rev is a paranoid crank but the only person in the book to take heroic action. To keep matters consistently bizarre, Berger describes the codger's funeral through the eyes of Junior, the teen-age lout: "As he watched the bronze box being lowered into the grave he could not help thinking of that little ditty that went: Your eyes fall in/ Your teeth fall out/ The worms crawl over/ Your nose and mouth. Dying was a lousy thing, and he intended to avoid...
...February.) Some will wonder, however, at your failure to mention the problem within the College. No Crimson editor, of course, would solicit or accept a letter of reference that was other than ruthlessly candid. Lesser undergrads and their mentors, however, have been known to connive at contriving letters that lout the student in "the most positive light possible." The "moral dishonestly" you so properly condemn begin close to home, and some small acknowledgement of that fact would lend grace to you righteousness. E. L. Pattullo Director, Center for the Behavioral Sciences
...living), and is slobbering drunk most of the time. Guy's room exemplifies, in miniature, the unobtrusive excellence of the film: decorated with Playboy pin-up posters, invariably the squalid cubicle provides graphic regurgitative evidence of excessive drinking the previous night and hosts a snoring half-dressed lout who obviously never has come within 75 feet of a naked woman. Houde plays Guy with impeccable control. He neither exaggerates nor lapses and shapes a seamless characterization...
There are many historical discrepancies: Merrick's freak show owner was not an immoral lout who abused his charge; Frederick Treves, the doctor who recorded Merrick's case, was not saintly; and the other freaks did not free Merrick from the sideshow. These deviations from fact would not be particularly important if the movie did not wear its supposed authenticity like a shield, daring people to criticize its intent...