Word: metamorphosisã
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...system. But her honeymoon was short.On her sixth day at the new job, Rinere met with the board of the 20-year-old, undergraduate-run Prefect Program and told them they would be “morphed” into a peer advising system. It would be a Kafkaesque metamorphosis??that is to say, an involuntary one.Rinere invited the prefect officers to serve on a new Student Advisory Board (SAB), but they were far from mollified. “The Prefect Program has been disbanded effective next year, from above, and without consultation with the Prefect Board...
...offender in this respect is household head Bernard Berkman (Jeff Daniels): he is a novelist whose literary reputation is diminishing in inverse proportion to his sense of entitlement and self-worth. For example, when asked by his teenaged son whether or not to bother reading “The Metamorphosis?? he replies: “Kafka was one of my predecessors.”When his wife Joan (Laura Linney) embarks on a literary career, with greater success than he has enjoyed in decades, the latent tensions in their marriage are exposed and worsen until they precipitate divorce.The...
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