Word: self
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nowadays too many people are saying that college students are apathetic, that they are interested only in selfish self-indulgent pursuits and have no cause to struggle for. But once we recognize that the satisfaction of our primal urges is our primary responsibility to society, I say that we will have a cause to struggle for--the liberation of our society from its patriarchal, heterocentric, food-ist, fecaphobic capitalism...
...stand-outs in the rest of the cast include Jeremy Bollinger, who ably captures the self-officiating nature of Fowler, a priggish "Twenty Two" club member. David McConaughy, as Delahay, also does a convincing job with his role of a self-centered snob. His snide comments and vicious glances could make even William F. Buckley cower in his chair. Mark Kessler inspires a chuckle for his performance as the lisping literary critic. The problem with most of the other actors is that they don't play up the viciousness of their roles--they fade into the background because they...
Serban led a six-week workshop in which students worked with six-foot bamboo poles. The poles served as extensions of self, with students learning new ways to move with the poles, as well as ways to switch them with partners. The class was "an exercise in concentration and awareness," according to Lodge. "Serban was trying to get us in touch with our instrument. I really learned a lot about myself in that class," he says...
Emily Fox, a clinician associated with the Tufts Department of Psychology in Medford, plans to interview about 75 women to determine if bulimia--a form of anorexia in which victims overeat and then try to lose the weight they have gained by self-induced vomiting--is purely psychological...
Faithfull's voice is eerie, raggedy, shattered. She sounds like Lotte Lenya serenading from a sidecar, but she is completely lacking in either melodrama or self-pity. Songs like Penthouse Serenade and Boulevard of Broken Dreams ("And gigolo and gigolette/ Wake up to find their eyes are wet/ With tears that tell of broken dreams") are the sort of fey selections reliably included on subscription-only albums by chanteuses who play hotel lounges in off- season. Faithfull, however, endows them with real gutter sophistication -- the Boulevard of Broken Dreams never sounded like a mean street before -- and that...