Word: seymour
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...Seymour Krelboin, a nebbishy lad who works in Mushnik's Skid Row Flower Shop, is in love with Mr. Mushnik's daughter Audrey. By crossing a butterwort with a Venus's-flytrap, Seymour creates a new plant type, which he calls Audrey Jr. and which, it happens, feeds on human blood. As it feeds, it grows, until it has spread over the entire store. Soon the notoriety of Audrey Jr. brings the little shop more business than it can handle. But there is a catch in this Faustian bargain: Seymour must oblige the plant's noisy...
...Wilkof is fine as Seymour, the mass murderer with a heart of buttercream chocolate. But the spotlight belongs to Ellen Greene. Her Audrey is a sweet, sexy, slightly dizzy blond with an Elmer Fudd lisp and wittle-girl wiles. Then Greene sings-and the theater walls buckle in awe at her volume and power. In her solo, Somewhere That's Green, in which she dreams of a home with every consumer cliche the '50s could offer, and in her second-act duet with Wilkof, she proves that Ellen Greene, not Audrey II, is the wildest force of nature...
...those factors didn't prevent the Corporation from nearly cancelling the extension, failing for one tense week to find the financial flexibility necessary to fund the wing. When pressured, however, Bok took the small step of giving Fogg director Seymour Slive a three-week fund-raising grace period, and--as was predictable--Slive found the necessary $3 1 million. Again, it was only strong outcries that prevented Harvard from giving critical University values short shrift. The Fogg decision, as one professor noted this spring, was "the worst message the University has sent to the academic world in 40 years...
Reflecting on the un-likelihood of Harvard students becoming politically radical, Liane G. Rozzell '82, a member of the William J Seymour Society, a Black Christian campus group, said. "A typical Black Student at Harvard comes from an educated middle class background and is not inclined toward such activism and challenging of the institution...
...instruct very young children, even Kemeny's BASIC is much too mathematical. Instead, more and more schools are turning to an innovative computer language called LOGO (from the Greek word for reason), developed by Seymour Papert and his colleagues at M.I.T. A mathematician who studied with the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, Papert has become something of a guru of the computer generation, predicting that the machines will revolutionize learning by taking much of the mystery out of mathematics, science and technology. Says he: "The computer can make the most abstract things concrete...