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Complaints about Harvard's freshman writing program regularly spark conversation in Yard dormitories and the Union, but an off-shoot of Expository Writing being offered for the first time this year is drawing rave reviews from instructors as well as students...
...split end Derek Graham generated a lot of excitement with the '81 team, and the other Princeton receivers drew rave reviews. However, the Princeton press guide describes quarterback Brent Woods merely as the person who nicknamed Bob Holly's offense ("Air Holly"), not an encouraging sign for the Tiger receivers...
...musical arrived in Cambridge under some rather unusual circumstances. An independent ensemble of Brown students first mounted the show at home in Providence earlier this year. They received rave reviews, extended their on-campus run, and then got a donation from an anonymous fan who wanted to send the production to the Boston area. The whole "tribe," as they refer to themselves on stage, gathered at the Pudding in June and hurriedly polished the act before last week's opening...
...musical trajectory is astonishing. The three-hour show, The Beatles at the Beeb, begins with Hippie Hippie Shake, a good bar-band rave-up, and ends three years later with the jet-stream harmonics of Ticket to Ride. That's a little like getting into outer space before everyone is certain you have even left the ground...
...lack of love. Between these terminals, Chekhov, Kafka, Mishima, Hemingway, Borges and a score of other master miniaturists show that brevity can be not merely the soul of wit, but the whole of it, and that almost all writing can benefit with pruning, from the short story to the rave review...