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...take heart, you ain't seen nothing yet. Seventeen hundred freshman of the Harvard and Radcliffe Classes of 1978 still have to fight each other and the registrar and then run the snake-like gauntlet of group representatives peddling their wares before they can officially say they are Harvard students...
...couplet; and, when she is discovered apparently lifeless, the Nurse's "O woeful day" speech is embarrassing. Then there are those two short consecutive scenes that inflict the words "banished" and "banishment" on us no less than 26 times. Not even General St. Pe's repeated references to his "seventeen years" of marriage in Waltz of the Toreadors can come close to the numbing annoyance of this portion of Romeo...
Radcliffe, then seventeen years old, merited two chapters, one written by Arthur Gilman, "Regent of the College." Even then, Martha Trimble Bennett, (probably a student) admitted, "Life at Radcliffe does not lend itself easily to description." The 'Cliffe seemed to be a dull place-- "there are no picturesque details which can be seized upon," Bennett reported. "A large number of the students live at home," so there was "none of the gay dormitory life which is so distinctive a feature at most women's colleges." An atmosphere of "thought and study invests Radcliffe," Bennett wrote, but "no girl is proud...
...case, the decision to drop the bomb. Although Miller raises this subject, he does it ever so gently, in spite of the fact that he himself has written a book deploring the Hiroshima and Nagasaki massacres. He tells of proposing that Truman make a goodwill trip to Hiroshima seventeen years after the war. Truman's response was, "I'll go to Japan, if that's what you want, but I won't kiss their ass." Miller comments on this remark: "I expect what Mr. Truman meant was that while he was perfectly willing to explain why he had decided...
...break even in the career won-loss column, the team will have to keep from duplicating last year's 3-10, 2-4 Ivy ecord. It'll be a difficult task with a young squad that numbers seventeen sophomores up from the frosh team...