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...hinder Hughes and his cast in their creation of an entertaining production. Set in the sophisticated high societies of Berlin and Paris in the late 19th century, the first two acts are characterized by a wry wit. With a script chock-full of sophisticated double entendres and copious phallic symbols, these acts showcase a wonderfully funny Joshua Clay Phillips ’07 as he portrays the simple and perpetually astonished Schwarz (Lulu’s second husband...
Second place goes to the MDT Advisers pen, which proves that even with the most phallic-shaped objects, size doesn’t matter. The all-silver pen with black writing is even sleeker than the UBS pen. However, the pen receives only runner-up status because it’s too simplistic. There’s no color, there’s no life. A pen has to be like a model and change its look with its function: “You’re cheetah! You’re a lamb! You’re an iguana...
...up—and that goes for the traffic light-colored outfits and the really, really awkward sex afterwards. Sources say an air of desperation hung over the sea of sex-starved seniors like a slowly descending sword of Damocles. (English majors and Crimson Key geeks, all together now: Phallic symbol.) Since Harvard students couldn’t recognize a social semaphore if it started tickling their genitals, party organizers decreed a red, green, and yellow clothing system, allowing happy couples to flaunt their gloating, we’re-better-than-you-and-get-laid-on-a-regular-basis attitudes...
...like your music swelling, your symbols phallic, and your women ignorant, then “Princess Ida” is the show...
...weapons born by each sex also carried significance in the play’s commentary on the definition of gender. The male soldiers used lances, whose phallic significance was emphasized by constant thrusting at the women, and the women carried axes, hinting at castration and emasculation. Ida’s university, Castle Adamant, itself seemed to serve as a symbol for the female genitalia, since the Prince and his courtiers had to “penetrate” it in order to win over the Princess and the students...