Word: sayings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard myths: there is no on-campus music scene and no one goes to the Quad. The publicity e-mails for Quadapalooza, last Friday's multiple-band event organized by Quad Sound Studios (QSS), seemed to imply as much ("THEY say there's no live music at Harvard...THEY have never been to the Quad"). But at the end of the show, the first myth was all but shattered. As for the second...hopefully that'll be worked...
...somebody say repetitive stress injury (RSI)? It looks as though Harvard's decorators forgot about everyone's favorite epidemic in their rush to "think different." Dartboard likes a little postmodern color as much as the next person, but not when it means endangering our wrists. It won't be too long before someone figures out that typing on a keyboard the size of a napkin while standing in front of a terminal carrying a hefty backpack can't be good for the nervous system...
...upon bringing us Italy in ravishing color. A spoonful of Italian sugar makes the thriller go down so easy that one wonders whether the ghost of Federico Fellini wasn't smiling on this one. Why not? Thomas Ripley isn't really all that different from Fellini's heroines: like, say, Giulietta Masina in Nights of Cabiria. They are just two lost idealists looking up at the beautiful world they can't quite enter themselves. But while Masina laughs, Ripley rends. The difference is heartbreaking...
...doesn't bother me if they say 'go for it, you have two weeks, it's a free for all, do whatever you can get away with,'" said former council President Beth A. Stewart '00, who endorsed Sterling P. A. Darling '01 for president this year...
...career, Gordimer has been a paragon of authorly virtue: a white writer in apartheid South Africa, she stood staunchly with what she always calls the "liberation movement." Her fiction exposes the bleeding heart of South African society, and her eye is precise and unflinching. This is not to say that her fiction is nakedly ideological: rather, it speaks complex truths about human relationships and social realities. It shocks the reader with its honesty...