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...Parker '03) during a rather eventful week of his youth in 1937. Surrounded by his family, Eugene steps outside of the action to offer a running narrative commentary on his thoughts and opinions. An average Brooklyn family, Jack (David Huyssen '02), Kate (Dana Scardigli '00) and their two children, Stanley (Eric Chesin '02) and Eugene, struggle to confront the economic and logistical hardships associated with taking in three more people: Kate's widowed sister Blanche (Debbie Rin '01) and her two children, Broadway-bound Nora (Sandra Seru '01) and sickly Laurie (Shaylyl Romney '02). With the constant backdrop...
...part-time party favor salesman. As Kate prepares supper, Blanche struggles with her asthma and tries not to be dependent upon the family which took her in, Laurie exploits her questionable medical condition to avoid helping, Nora dreams of her audition for the new musical extravaganza Abracadabra!, Stanley tries to conceal losing his own job that day and Eugene fantasizes about Nora and her recent "developments." The pressure explodes in an absurd yet well-orchestrated dinner scene over boiled liver and mashed potatoes...
Well, it certainly sounds promising, but I worry about all those traditions being lost. I refer to the spate of online universities that are being planned--cyberspace institutions that will compete with, possibly replace, established schools such as Harvard, Yale and Bob Jones. Skeptical of their efficacy, Stanley Ikenberry, president of the American Council on Education, said that higher learning means more than mere mastery of content. "It involves judgment, analysis, synthesis, communication, creativity and innovation," he noted. That may be so, but fortunately such achievements have never been associated with the college experience. My concern is what else will...
...Heard: “Well, I finally decided on Morgan Stanley. I mean, Blake already has an apartment on the Upper West Side, and it will just make it so much more convenient for the both of us...Oh really? I never thought she would go with that firm. What’s her father’s name again...
...born in Canada. I did not grow up watching the fabled Montreal Canadiens win the Stanley Cup year after year. I’m not old enough to remember legends like Gordie Howe or Bobby Orr. And though Wayne Gretzky might have been a hockey hero in L.A., in my small suburb of New York City he was just some guy to bitch-slap on the Sega Genesis...