Word: minding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...move to the 'burbs; Funny Farm is Warner's third comedy in a year to deal with New Yorkers who find angst in New England. (Another film, Moving, exiled Richard Pryor from New Jersey to darkest Idaho.) But The Witches of Eastwick and Beetlejuice had infernal satire in mind and an intelligent eye for the grotesque. Funny Farm is mostly just a country store stocked with stale notions and antique gags: Mr. Bland Builds His Dream House...
...approximately 700 lectures and 70,000 pages later, my mind returns to Henry Adams. Adams was convinced that his education at Harvard--too rooted in present concerns--did not begin to prepare him for his later life. "The attempt of the American of 1800 to educate the American of 1900," he wrote, "had not often been surpassed for folly...The attempt of the American of 1900 to educate the American of 2000," he was equally convinced, "must be even blinder...
...Adams day, a Harvard education "resulted in an autobiographican blank, a mind on which only a water-mark had been stamped." Ours has, I am convinced, produced more than a watermark, but it has also eschewed filling up the mind's pages with indelible ink. While shrill voices today prophesy doom for a class educated as ours, it seems to me that some of us might just be able to meet Henry Adams face to face without shuddering...
Although Anderson had decided to lay aside singing when she arrived at Harvard, she soon changed her mind Anderson tried out for the Opportunes freshman year and went on from there to join Robespierre, a pop/funk band which had become one of the more prominent bands by the time she joined. By the start of her junior year, Anderson's skills were so widely renowned that she was the sole undergraduate chosen to sing with the Boston Pops at Harvard's 350th stadium celebration...
When asked what she would advise Dalton, Jackson said, "It has to be done on a person-by-person basis. It's not a fun thing to do--it's a very lonely thing to do. Harvard is big and powerful, and in my mind, it fights very unethically...