Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other two shows also flatten Cheever's subtleties into middle-brow platitudes. In O Youth and Beauty!, Michael Murphy plays a onetime Princeton track star, now a bank executive, who vexes his wife (Kathryn Walker) by jumping over furniture at cocktail parties. Not content to let this conceit speak for it self, Playwright Gurney supplies dialogue to explain that the hero is "surmounting the obstacles of middle age . . . [by] leaping above the paraphernalia of middle-class life." In The Five-Forty-Eight, a dance of death between a married man (Laurence Luckinbill) and his jilted lover (Mary Beth Hurt...
Singer said explaining motivations in fiction is often unnecessary. "If you tell a story well, the facts will speak for themselves and readers will know the motivation," he said...
Bowersock theorizes that faculty members are hesitant to speak at CUE meetings because students seem so eager to make their points and "wave their hands with gusto." Because the CUE is open to guests, many ERG members attend the meetings and Bowersock believes the professors find the imbalanced ratio--sometimes 25 students to two or three faculty members--"overwhelming." Professors seem less anxious when lecturing to vastly larger student audiences in class each week, but then monologues and dialogues are two different things...
Faculty members did speak up when CUE debated the Core Curriculum last year, Henderson observes. "When the Harvard national image is at stake," he rightly reasons, the Faculty finds its voice. But when it comes to purely student issues such as study abroad, faculty members slip back into the background...
...make it clear to Faculty Council members who volunteer for CUE what the commitment entails. Perhaps such a warning would discourage the Cromptons who have better things to do from joining the committee. Faculty members should also understand the issues CUE considers. McClave, for instance, says she did not speak up at the CUE discussions on the Core two years ago because she was "not well-acquainted with the Core legislation." This is incredible considering that CUE discussed nothing but the Core that year...