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...STUPID HUMAN TRICKS...
...most of Donizetti's more than 30 other comedies, save for the introduction of a pharmacy on wheels. Here's all you need to know: Uniforms are sexy, but enough money can make anyone seem lovable. Bordeaux is worth whatever you pay for it. People are really, really stupid...
...even with the poison-gas effect the play veers a little too far into the realm of absurdity. The characters successfully end up seeming crazy without being enlightening. They have some insight into this fact: as Beep says early in the play, "Maybe we really are just stupid." But when they suggest they are just like us--in Beep's words, "I guess we're all the same"--one feels inclined to object. The Day of the Dogs never gives us sufficient opportunity to do anything but distance ourselves from the characters...
However, we do not anticipate a mass student exodus. As The Crimson has stated in its editorials, Harvard students "are not so stupid as to dive into a class for which they are ill-prepared, unless they are willing to put in extra work." Departments should still consider concentrators the primary audience of their course offerings. We have faith that professors will maintain the rigor of their courses, and thus the option of taking departmental classes for Core credit will only be used by students in areas in which they are particularly experienced or passionate...
...family members. Describing the genesis of the book, he claims that "for my mom, it was a gesture of affection. These are stories the way she told stories." His childhood in rural North Carolina apparently offered him plenty of time to hear about and observe people being crazy and stupid...