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...upgraded tutorial system will give several departments the opportunity to eliminate the current practice of giving the same grade in both tutorial and to the thesis--a seemingly pointless redundancy. Just like the freshman seminar program, the ungraded tutorial will not be computed in a student's over-all average, but rather will be judged on a pass-fail basis...
Sometimes The Victors confuses you with details and the seemingly pointless fluttering of some thin characters. But this is only outside the cage. Inside, Sartre and Babe avoid allowing the lines of the play to wander off from each other and the result is a fascinating, lucid view of the tombless dead and the entombed living...
...state sales tax has saddled most college communities with a massive load of pointless paperwork; the result has been a time-consuming combination of confusion and inconvenience for administrators, students, and bookstores alike...
...continued affectation" which surrounds him. In the last scene, his sincerity and sobriety provide the one dramatic moment of the Charles production which is not just funny. Then everybody starts the frug. Like the show itself, the dance entertains, but it makes Congreve's quiet thrust at meaning pointless. I would have thought the one thing that a repertory company might have learned from modern drama is to take comedy just a little seriously...
With so perfect a stage, it is pointless to lament that the rest of the Met is slightly tacky. It would probably take the management twenty years to amass the funds and courage to make significant changes. The new generation that arises by that time will forgive the new Met as being quaint, just as we forgave the old Met for its idiosyncrasies...