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Especially entertaining was the performance of NEC sophomore Sara Jayne Blackmore as Geraldine Barclay. Blackmore seemed especially at home in the play’s screwy chaos as the na??ve secretary, always remaining in character and drawing laughter from the audience with her animated facial contortions...
...another sense the departures were disheartening. Perhaps some undergraduates—those of us who went to prep schools, those of us who have family members who came here, those who were never hopeless na??fs—never believed in a mythologized Harvard peopled by Charles-sculling geniuses. But for the rest of us, “Harvard” once meant a remote and rarefied place, full of extraordinary people...
James’ wit and personality permeates the book, to the extent that her stages seem to all be based on personal experience. One wonders what former roommate is the na??ve “New Graduate” and what hated and despised former boss is now called “The Worker Bee.” James occasionally injects a shot of realism, reminding readers that “You don’t just wake up one day, stretch, look at the sun and say, ‘Oh baby, I’ve found...
...teachings seemed unbalanced. I believed he was bad for the Church because his values went against my own. He seemed a backwards man, caught in a time long since passed and trying to enforce a morality on a world no longer willing to accept it. I criticized his seemingly na??ve unawareness that his opposition to birth control could spread pain in a world with dangerous diseases and unwanted children. His stance against abortion seemed to offend human rights. I viewed his refusal to consider female priests as sexism, thinly veiled by Scripture and Church traditions. I thought...
...aren’t as bad as they could be. It’s that students feel like the time for action has passed. At 20 and 21 years old we’re already looking back on two years ago as the time when we were young and na??ve. I find myself feeling like I’ve lost my outrage. I’ve spent it on the war, on the election, on the Republicans and the Democrats and those politicians who seem to be a blend of both. As I mark the second anniversary...