Word: studious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grads from the '50s, is a swamp. As Jaffe's characters slog their way from college to their 20th reunion, they get progressively muddier. Each arrived at Rona's Radcliffe as a clean, bright stereotype--Jewish-American Princess Emily, WASPy golden girl Daphne, good-timing Southern gal Annabel, and studious but passionate Chris. Jaffe drags them through a mire of messy divorces, deformed kids, homosexual husbands, and personal failures. You begin to hope each traumatic life crisis will be the final quagmire, putting the poor girl out of her misery. But of course they all surface at the 20th reunion...
...Radcliffe grads from the 50s, is a swamp. As Jaffe's characters slog their way from college to 20th reunion, they get progressively muddier. Each arrived at Rona's Radcliffe as a clean, bright, stereotype--Jewish American princess Emily, WASPy golden girl Daphne, good-timing Southern gal Annabel, and studious but passionate Chris. Jaffe drags them through a mire of messy divorces, deformed kids, homosexual husbands, and personal failures. You begin to hope each traumatic life crisis will be the final quagmire, putting the poor girl out of her misery. But of course they all surface at the 20th reunion...
...like to have some fun, if that word hasn't gone out of style, to complement the studious environment," Lenore Frazier said
...season to be studious. The papers you have to write and the texts you haven't read are enough to keep you chained to your desk even if the Boston theaters were offering something to tempt you away, which they are not. And it's too cold to brave the lines for Superman. In short, sentiments of gloom and doom pervade the Harvard campus this month...
...year here, or rather, his freshman year had almost finished him. I couldn't believe how much he hated Harvard after that year, and how much he changed. His self-confidence seemed to be gone, but more shocking, his academic curiosity had completely vanished. He had been the more studious of the two of us, and now he wanted to drop out of college. From what I had seen, I had a feeling that I was in for trouble...