Word: suggest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...senior Americanists mean to suggest that for the last seven years there has not been a single historian worthy tenure, such a defense is unacceptable. In those seven years two full classes of American history concentrators have graduated, none of whom who could receive help on a senior thesis on the 20th Century from a professor "worthy" of tenure. If a "renaissance" of talent in the field does occur, Harvard will have played little part in bringing it about...
...professors have been remarkably interested in introducing undergraduates to the historical method. But given the department's refusal to make a promotion from within, young scholars may soon become wary of coming to Harvard at all. At the same time, the department is falling in influence, and outside historians suggest that the most talented graduate students no longer choose to pursue their doctorates at the University...
...country, bringing over European slaves. But instead of letting this not-so-clever premise unfold with some dramatic grace or subtlety, Lee has a narrator explain the wider historical circumstances in deadening detail. Like the rest of the play, this opening lacks the imagination and care that its themes suggest and demand...
...plot thickens. This is no ordinary affair, but one between a man and the wife of his best friend. Heard that one before? The play also suggest a homosexual relationship between the two friends, a suggestion which this production makes overt...
...different, but successful vein is the title track. Here, the jerky, sporadic guitar chords suggest the premium-fueled rockabilly licks of former X guitarist Billy Zoom, while Dando chants out some direct but not inane lyrics: "We got problems we can't solve. It's enough to make you want to hate your friends." It's not the most charitable sentiment but it is honest...