Word: petri
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...author of Election, a novel about a vicious race for class president at a New Jersey high school that became a satisfyingly nasty movie. He didn't invent the notion that high school sucks, nor is he breaking new ground when he reveals that American suburbs are petri dishes of ennui and alienation. But he shows admirable zeal in prosecuting the case, and he comes as close as anybody to answering a not unimportant question: If the suburbs are the perfect community, the incarnation in grass and sunlight of American affluence, then how come life there is such hell...
...Staff writer Carrie H. Petri can be reached at cpetri@fas.harvard.edu...
...certainly think it should be expanded,” says Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language Homi K. Bhabha. “I think freshman seminars are really the Petri dishes—the laboratories—of interdisciplinary work...
...Staff writer Carrie H. Petri can be reached at cpetri@harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Carrie H. Petri can be reached at cpetri@fas.harvard.edu...