Word: schoolishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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memorable achievement of the council two years ago was persuading dining halls to serve chocolate milk. Current undergraduates tended to associate the council with series of failed concerts, high-schoolish election campaigns and irrelevant debates...
...only convincing but heartrending, with a meek bearing masking an inner, doomed nobility of character. What keeps him and Brack from salvaging the play is the same lack of ambition that hampers the other actors. This time, though, the lack comes in the production staff itself. High-schoolish, thrown-together props repeatedly puncture the illusion, starting with the opening complaint of a maiden aunt (Barbara Nathan). "There's no more space here for these flowers," she laments, looking around at the polished, unoccupied tabletops of the Quincy JCR. "So many people have sent flowers already." In later scenes Hedda...
Wolfe's eye for the ridiculous is just as sharp as ever (he hates sidewalk stereos); his flair for language just as captivating (Jimmy Carter is an "unknown down-home matronly-voiced Sunday-schoolish soft-shelled watery-eyed sponge-backed Millenial lulu"). But all the caring is gone. Wolfe doesn't let his subjects hang themselves anymore (as he did so exquisitely in "Radical Chic," his description of Leonard Bernstein's fund-raiser for the Black Panthers); he must open the trap-door himself...