Word: responders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would like to respond to the editorial (Opinon, Feb. 11) and article (News, Feb. 5) concerning undergraduate advising at Harvard and to the comments directed to the Economics Department in particular. In the editorial and related article, The Crimson remarked that the Economics Department ranked near bottom in advising and quoted Head Tutor Christopher Foote as saying "We have no plans to rework the system." Apparently, a large portion of the investigative reporting by The Crimson constituted putting those two sentences right next to each other...
Managing skills also figured into the decisions. Applicants explained how they would respond if one of their researchers threatened to quit, and how they would communicate their concerns about subpar copy. Such skills are important because "it can be hard to manage as many as 14 of your own peers--people you see in the dining halls every day," Wilkinson said...
...offense was tentative and a bit sloppy,"Sullivan said. "We weren't poised, we weren'tconfident in the team offensively. But it wasgreat to see us respond by making our freethrows...
Wasn't it only two years ago that men's magazines were loading up on earnest service pieces to respond to the success of the Cosmopolitan for guys, Men's Health (which currently boasts a circulation of 1.45 million)? Yes, but now all the fellows are slapping cleavage on their covers--in homage, it would appear, to Maxim. Whereas Details used to feature the stubbly likes of Stephen Dorff, the current number is graced by Elizabeth Hurley, touched up in such an unsubtle way that her breasts fairly leap off the page; it's as if they were eyeballs...
...wrote Shakespeare in Love. The London press pointed out last week that the screenplay of that very palpable hit has remarkable similarities to the plot of No Bed for Bacon, a 1941 novel by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon. A spokesman for Miramax, the film's distributor, could only respond, "Nothing is truly original. Shakespeare borrowed and adapted plots himself." To borrow (a bad habit) from T.S. Eliot, "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal...