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...Nick, 16, of Philadelphia, isn’t just here to sightsee. “Is Harvard competitive?,” he asks gravely. He carries a businesslike legal pad and wears an intent expression as he walks through the Yard with his father in tow. A high school junior, Nick is on the familiar college tour, squeezing Harvard in between visits to Brandeis and Yale. Rose and Shirley are looking much more excited. The two women, both from Virginia, have put in their time at the Coop. “I got six Harvard sweatshirts!,” crows...
...need to pad the running time can also have been the only explanation for the presence of the two gentlemen sunbathers (Trey Burvant and Robert Olinger), clowns who perform extremely broad and pointedly irrelevant routines, which include dancing, reciting poetry, acting as extras, pouring water on each other, harassing the protagonists and telling audience members to be glad that life isn’t worse than it is. They are on stage for about half the play, and yet they have nothing to do with the it; their only function is comic relief. At best, they are superfluous and occasionally...
...whom writing was less a habit than a need, like food and water, as though the very act shaped his thoughts as much as the thoughts shaped the writing. Reagan didn't type; he wrote by hand in blue or black ink on a yellow legal pad or dictated for his secretaries to transcribe, and so the drafts were often saved, stuffed into a box and then forgotten. In 1996 Kiron Skinner, now a professor at Carnegie Mellon, was researching a book on the end of the cold war when she stumbled on the first batch...
Then the women step up for their turn with the instructor to practice their newly-learned skill. As they approach the pad-wielding instructor, smiles fall off their faces, jokes of “kicking ass” fade away, and they focus on the task at hand...
...collect credentials and honors at every opportunity in our mad dash to middle age. Hundreds of clubs proliferate into dozens of niches, each top-heavy with leaders and ambitious functionaries, many with titles as nebulous as the roles they play. Members are never far from some distinction that will pad their resumes, and when those bullet-points go up for grabs, gauntlets fall with a severity worthy of Karl Rove a week before elections...