Word: murrayism
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...array of novel offerings was rounded out by a suite of guests. The critic used his extensive connections to bring the distributor of The Passion of the Christ and then the director of The Yards to the Carpenter Center, culminating in a surprise cameo from star Bill Murray at VES 173x’s final meeting...
...that was it. With a bunch of strangers enjoying the glittering view, and only one minor noise complaint, Murray Dry’s semester as a visiting professor in the Government department and tenant of the top floor of the Mather House high-rise was over. We had both survived...
...seniors who took his class last spring to find out how it compared to the rest of the fare over our four years here. They loved it, they worked hard, he was tragically disorganized, but he obviously cared more than any professor they’d ever had. The Murray Dry experience was a unique one, and positive too, at least for the most part. I read some of his CUE guide evaluations to get a more representative sample. The best comment conveys a sort of touching tableau, albeit one that was quite frustrating for the student. The person wrote...
...couldn’t have taken his course here. Or I would have done very badly in it if I had tried. Because if I had wanted the full assault of Murray Dry-style student-faculty interaction, I would have had to prioritize reading constitutional law above everything else. Otherwise, what would I have said to him in office hours or over lunch or when he called on me by name unannounced in a 60-person lecture class? I liked being able to pick something else, being anonymous enough in lecture to spend time somewhere other than the library...
...looked at all the possibilities, then we went outside too, people say ‘you’ve got Doug Melton, you’ve got Andrew Murray, you’ve got some good people, you should be looking at them,’” he said...