Word: prawer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfortunately, once he has provided the detailed backdrop, Ivory and his co-scenarist, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, neglect most of the objects in the foreground. A face outlined here, a figure there, and they consider the task completed. It is not. The guru and the singer may be alive; the rest are actors sitting for sketches with only the vaguest dimension or purpose. Moreover, lines like "I feel so trapped. No one here understands me" tend to mock the film's painfully straight face...
...former Israeli Ambassador to Washington and Lon don. "This university must help pre serve that quality or else we are lost." Students and faculty have a sense of direction that most U.S. colleges would find awesome. Professors publish or perish on the theory, bluntly stated by Humanities Dean Joshua Prawer, that "where there is a choice between a good scholar or a good teacher, we will always take the scholar." The average freshman is 21 years old and-whether man or woman-an army veteran. Students prefer chess to soccer...