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Only the little things nag at me. The person on my floor freshman year that took six showers a day, for instance. I didn't see a need to berate him about his actions at the time, even though the constant steam was causing ceiling tiles to fall and toilet paper to become water-logged. I was able to understand that he somehow always needed...
These same faculty members, remember, are the people who would have to vote to change the calendar for that change to occur. They would have to be super-humanly altruistic to do so. And they can tell themselves, if their consciences nag, that perhaps in a larger sense changing the system would be wrong: great teachers, not students, are what Harvard should work hardest to attract and the current academic calendar, although it is unfair to students. acts as an unbelievable perk for current and future faculty members, thus benefitting students in the long...
...opening of the play, it seems that no worthwhile interaction can occur between this hostile group of women; they bicker and nag incessantly. Yet over the course of this short two-act drama, these four outcasts who face society's scorn try to show each other how to beat the male-dominated system...
...characters of mother and daughter are completely overshadowed by the story's half-mad protagonist, serpentile in his stealthy pedophilia. The mother, meanwhile, is reduced to the stereotype of the hypochondriac nag, while the daughter--behind the violet mist of the poetic physical description--is no more than a cute, slightly buck-toothed kid on roller skates...
...cyclical nature of it all is even starting to nag at Mr. Antrobus' indefatigable fortitude. In the play's most serious moment, as the family tries to reestablish its happy home, Mr. Antrobus warns his wife, "You and I must never forget those resolves in peacetime that were so clear to us in times...