Word: schoolishness
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Acquaintances remember Monette speaking occasionally of her fictional undergraduate days. Lucille Sprinkles recalls that Monette told her how disgusted she had been with the lesbianism of Radcliffe women. "She implied she had been a loner then," Sprinkles remembers. "Aloof," "protected," "rich," "prep-schoolish," "snooty" and "very bored and disinterested," is how others who knew her at the Business School describe...
...Dunster Lysistrata adds several musical numbers which contribute to its lightweight impression. The music is entertaining, though there is nothing particularly brilliant about any of it. Sometimes the whole production takes on a high-schoolish air, but this usually doesn't last too long. The tone and content of the production sometimes approaches that blend of the cute, the childishly obscene and the genuinely funny that must have been present in '30s House productions with titles like Whore and Piece...
According to Kaplan. "They wanted to start another humor magazine because there is no national equivalent to Punch (a British publication), and Mad is too high schoolish..., Twenty-First Century agreed to pay for it and the Lampoon agreed to franchise the name." Kaplan said that the franchise gives the local Lampoon the right to have the final say on all National Lampoon copy. Unfortunately, Kaplan did not exercise his option of editing the April galley proofs, although he did make changes in the forthcoming May edition...
Freshmen, arriving, as they do, a week earlier, would not be intolerably hard put to adjust or to choose courses. In fact, it may not be unreasonable to expect that a dose of high-schoolish discipline early in the year before the Great Dissolution sets in may even be psychologically helpful to freshmen...
...trouble recruiting people to run as representatives. "Most of the students who come here were very active in high school," explains Judy Mumma '69, the former president of East House. "When they come here they just aren't interested in this stuff any more. Cliffies feel it's high-schoolish...