Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only stereotype I am aware of is that Eliot House is full of snobby rich prep school students. This is not true, Eliot House follows the College's ratio of public to prep school graduates. While it is true that there are some snobby and some very rich students here, there are no more than in any other house. Eliot House has a more diverse student population than perceived--we have the largest Puerto Rican student population on campus...
...size of the briefcase indicates an attorney's status: junior associates haul home thick wads of raw documents in bulky bags, while partners take away the distillate of that material: a few sheets in a thin leather envelope. He deftly sketches the ballets of protocol between august attorneys and rich parvenu clients, the ugly skirmishing between partners near retirement and their power-hungry successors, the condescension of smug lawyers toward everyone who works for them...
...hardened, thinks only of money and business. Their daughter (Rebecca Ellens) is a fanciful child who has learned none of the % social graces. The self-proclaimed idealism of their friend Gregers Werle (Christopher McCann)--who moves in and reorders their lives with disastrous consequences--mingles religious fanaticism with a rich man's easy disdain for money. Fittingly, the production ends without the comfort of catharsis, in a fistfight between the unrepentant Gregers and a neighbor, a drunken but discerning doctor. The incidents come basically from Ibsen, conveyed with a rawness modern audiences rarely see in his work. Even in this...
Catcher Frank Morelli, for instance, who earlier nailed a B.C. player attempting to steal, snagged a good Mike Azzolini bunt up the firstbase line in the sixth inning and threw to first baseman Rich Renninger in time...
Although Sutton surrendered two hits in the top of the sixth inning, a fielder's choice and an around-the-horn double play--from Paul Rooney to Kay to Rich Renninger--enabled the senior pitcher to escape unscathed...