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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cooling, reheating, and subsequent sitting in the steam table or on the serving line. It is significant that the plans for the renovation of the Leverett dining area include proposals to prepare more food directly in the pantry. Leverett residents, at the tag end of the tunnel, have often suffered with less palatable food then other Houses due to the great distance from the Central Kitchen. Centrality intrinsically lowers the quality of served food, since reheated dishes can never taste as well as food brought directly to the serving table from the kitchen...
Perhaps most important, the A.A.U. is scaling the heights of hypocrisy by asking a student to forsake his work for an athletic appearance. Track meets often abound in 28-year-old freshmen and other curiosities who are college men in name only. Foreign athletes are present in increasing quantity, ostensibly students at some American institution but rarely much more than subsidized performers...
Other leading players are competent, but usually only that. Pare Lorentz suffers from stereotyping. He has played the part of the clean-cut, pure-hearted hero so often in Pudding shows that it is liable to become second-nature to him, unless something is done soon. He has more lines and worse ones than most of the characters, and only one song that he has a chance with. Rupert Hitzig, playing Lorentz's romantic interest, is also hampered by too much dialogue and a weak singing voice. He tries hard with the one song he has that packs any punch...
...explanation for this attitude can be found primarily in the commonness of European travel, which is often a narrowing experience at college age. It is narrowing because it breaks down the feelings of wonder and strangeness with which a child responds to something new, substituting mere indifference. Furthermore, in destroying the attractive image of Europeans formed in childhood it replaces them with the easy stereotypes to which the tourist is most often exposed. The triumph of "really getting to know the people," prime goal of the sincere and energetic travellers, usually consists of conversations in museums, evenings in the beercellars...
...more delighted to discover error than beauty, and find it difficult to counteract this when they have to sustain a long thesis that is something other than adverse criticism. Even the moderate position removes emotional response as a criterion for evaluation, relying solely on theoretically objective tests that are often based on standards more arbitrary and less reliable than the emotions themselves. This withdrawal of feeling can explain the anti-sentimentalism--which may be repressed sentimentalism--that rejects all Romantic music, rococco art, and Victorian literature while it lavishes its pent-up critical enthusiasm on movies whose artistic worth...