Word: mattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Salter's language is simple and well-chosen, allowing these ideas to come through clearly. The rhyme is usually nicely understated; once or twice it becomes too contrived and in combination with the outwardly simple subject matter makes the poetry a little too cute and obvious...
...troupe of waiters with names out of an Abbott and Costello routine. It is the world of the Freshman Musical, a world in which ordinary rules of theater and of theater reviewing do not necessarily apply. Creating an original musical entirely from scratch is never an easy matter, and it is probably less so when the show is written by committee. The fact that a musical as coherent as The Hong Kong has emerged from such less-than-ideal circumstances should probably be viewed as a minor miracle...
...troupe of waiters with names out of an Abbott and Costello routine. It is the world of the Freshman Musical, a world in which ordinary rules of theater and of theater reviewing do not necessarily apply. Creating an original musical entirely from scratch is never an easy matter, and it is probably less so when the show is written by committee. The fact that a musical as coherent as The Hong Kong has emerged from such less-than-ideal circumstances should probably be viewed as a minor miracle...
Harvard's past is the mythic past; the fact that the deans give all incoming first-years a list of every past occupant of their rooms is conducive to such myth-making. We are all walking down well-trodden paths here, no matter how deviant we feel. And so we let others' pasts become our present, others' ambitions our own desires, others' fashions our own trademarks. There's a word for it, somewhere out there--if not in Portuguese, then perhaps there should be one in Harvardese. Joshua DERMAN Joshua Derman '99 is a philosophy concentrator in Quincy House...
...With student directors, no matter how good they are, you tend to second-guess them a bit," she says...