Word: neck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jacob R. Brackman '65, of Adams and Great Neck, N.Y., has been awarded the annual Dana Reed Prize for distinguished writing in a Harvard undergraduate publication. He received the award for character sketches of Ginsberg and Martin Luther King, which appeared in the CRIMSON...
David A. Benjamin '66, of Kirkland House and Great Neck, N.Y., will succeed Dean Peckham as captain of the tennis team...
...lips are curved into an obliging, fixed half-smile. The grey hair is coiffured with mathematical precision, cleft exactly by the part. At the neck, not entirely masked by the photographer's shadows, a few age lines can be discerned. The dress is severe, revealing nothing, so dark that it blends into the background, relieved by a link necklace from which depend castings of the Greek letter epsilon. The whole suggests someone's amiable grandmother, intelligent, well preserved, still vigorous and minutely intent on keeping up appearances...
Winnie, increasingly immobile (in the second act she is buried up to her neck) and denied the escape of death, is forced to assert her existence through Willie and her "things" a bag, a comb, a toothbrush, a revolver. The smallest objects become signs of life, and assume a life of their own. The parasol may burn up, the glasses may be smashed, but Winnie knows that they will mysteriously return, unharmed, to sustain her endless day, and she cries with appropriately endless irony, "That is what I find so wonderful, the way things...(voice breaks, head down)...things...
...scarcely worth suspending your disbelief. Yet you don't think about that when he's slicing through whole screensful of villains. Unfortunately exaggeration is lacking where it most belongs, in the character of "Sanjuro," played by Mifune. He is good chiefly at two things: swaggering around scratching his neck, and jumping up and down hurling insults at his antagonists. Kurosawa doesn't really give him a chance to do enough of the latter, so that his wholesale slaughters of the guilty seem unmotivated, and ultimately gratuitous. At the end of one such massacre, Mifune, apparently horrified or at least angered...