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Sunday is highlighted by the Opening Exercises.First years and their families sit on foldingchairs together in Tercentary Theater and try toimagine four years at this place. They sing quaintHarvard songs, listen to witty speeches, lookaround at other families and try to convincethemselves that the next time they end up sittingon a Tercentary Theater foldingchair--Commencement--is a long, long way away...
There's a talent show one night, in which firstyears applaud their gifted classmates who can playguitar, sing and even recite "The Raven" frommemory. but while this is Harvard, there willstill be crummy acts. Which will be refreshing,since this is Harvard...
...Friday night, first-years get a look at oneof Harvard's stranger phenomenons, the a capellajam. The performance goes something like this: acapella group performs a funny skit. Audiencemembers laugh and wish they, too, could weartuxedos and black cocktail dresses and be funny. Acapella group sings song with lots of ba-ba-basounds and harmonizing. Audience members applaudand wish they, too, could wear tuxedos and blackcocktail dresses and sing well. A capella groupsencourage first-years to go to auditions...
Both could be correct, at least politically, and still miss the main point. Yes, the Indians are very nice people here, which is a nice thing. And yes, the real Pocahontas probably didn't have Tina Turner's posture and Iman's neck. She probably didn't sing Broadway-style songs either or talk to a clever raccoon and a persnickety hummingbird. Maybe John Smith didn't look like Fabio and sound like Mel Gibson (who speaks the role). But this is a movie-a cartoon, for goodness' sake! It is a boy-meets-girl, boy-gets-girl, boy-loses...
...Lion King. At its heart is a musical number in which all the little animals of the jungle gather round the big animals and sing a song cheerfully celebrating the capacity of the latter to gobble them up whenever they feel like...