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Before I came to Harvard I did not feel culturally deficient. While my parents did not ignore my ethnic heritage (my mother makes a delectable Swiss peach cake and we have carried on a tradition started by my great-grandfather of having "plum pudding parties"), they seemed more interested in making me aware of U.S. history and culture than any other one. I have lived in Massachusetts all my life, and I pride myself on my detailed knowledge of the American Revolution from many visits to monuments and museums. My parents and I listened to American music, visited American architectural...
...translations of James's story. Its 1947 Broadway debut was a rousing success, William Wyler's 1949 film adaptation won an Oscar for Olivia de Havilland, and 1994's Broadway sell-out revival won a trove of Tonys. The Lyric Stage production, directed by Polly Hogan and starring Paula Plum as Catherine and Michael Bradshaw as Dr. Sloper, deserves similar accolades...
Whether or not her transformation is convincing--and Plum largely carries it off--one hates to see the work as a whole adopt the values of its own object of scorn. Simply in retitling the work The Heiress, the Goetzes define Catherine's character through her financial prospects. Nor do we delight in witnessing Catherine exchange her youthful naivete for such a bitter, scaly adulthood. This sour apple doesn't fall far from Dr. Sloper's withered tree...
...Scott Paper, Dunlap's last labor, doing these days? Swallowed by Kimberly-Clark. How about former charge Lily-Tulip Inc.? Now a lean, mean division of Fort Howard Paper Co. Once Dunlap's bum-to-plum magic act is done lining shareholder pockets (Dunlap himself owns several million in Sunbeam stock), he takes the last sure price-boosting step: feeding it to a big rival. Then ? poof! ? he's gone...
...gratifying those in the position to facilitate your climb, a widespread sort of prostitution euphemistically described as "selling yourself." Those who doubt my claims might consider the ostensibly merit-based recruiting season and ask themselves if Dirk really went much farther than some inspiring investment bankers would if that plum job at Goldman Sachs was on the line...