Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Artie finds the Harvard experience is somewhat different from what he anticipated. His companions at the graduate dormitory "Comus Hall" are hardly your typical students. Comus houses Voltears, a graduate student in French literature who suffers from a sort of agoraphobia, a gay man ("the Gainsborough boy") and his weekend roomate nicknamed Pithecanthropus, and a host of other eccentrics...
...exaggeration and somewhat cavalier regard for reality that Mallon displays in Arts and Sciences help to brighten a novel with a potentially depressing theme. Mallon says his novel is "really intended as light entertainment." "There's a great element of silliness in the book," but that "does seem to go along with the territory...
...Crimson that described a controversy over a parody attacking the Lampoon. I was struck by the fact that in this piece the Lampoon was represented (or represented itself) as the repository of good taste, clean fun, and enlightened thought. My own recollection from my days as a student are somewhat different; I recall that the Lampoon's publications and its extra-journalistic activities contained personal attacks on faculty members and students, as well as jibes aimed at minorities and women. Perhaps the Lampoon has changed its style in recent years, but the occasional copy that I come across suggests that...
...ambition and talent. However, it takes a while for Haner's initial awkwardness with her lines to wear off. It takes perfect acting to say, "What's the point of following the rules? I don't want to die! I don't want to die like that!" without sounding somewhat artificial, and Haner doesn't completely bring Susan into reality until the middle of the first...
Which brings me--somewhat circuitously and ficticiously--to Harvard Coach Bill Cleary. Cleary, who is in his 17th season at Harvard, earned ECAC Coach of the Year honors (along with UVM's Mike Gilligan) yesterday...