Word: touchings
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...Crimson’s best chances to touch Wilkerson came as he tired down the stretch. In the sixth, the team loaded the bases on consecutive singles from Klimkiewicz, Brunnig, and Brown, but Meehan flied harmlessly to right to end the threat...
...provided by three actors behind a curtain). This scene was amusing and unsettling in its incongruity, but it was also confusing, marking a radical shift from the characterizations that had been set up to that point. The modernization was not confined to the characterizations and dress. In a cinematic touch, slides with credits and captions (such as “He receives a ghostly apparition”) were projected onto a curtain behind the action. The set itself, designed by Lizzie B. Rose ’08, was comprised of wooden blocks for thrones and high ground as well...
Dressed in a black shirt, black pants, and black thick-rimmed glasses, Folds gave some of his tunes a personal touch by including references to the College...
...typical Alloy book is farmed out to a contract writer, but Viswanathan (who declined to comment for this article) came to them. A college-admissions counselor liked her writing at 17 and put her in touch with the William Morris Agency. Her agent suggested she work with Alloy to develop a reader-friendly concept. Coincidentally, she and Alloy hit on a tale about an Indian-American teen who applies to Harvard, is told she has to prove she has a social life, hatches a plan to get one but realizes she has made a mistake by trying to be someone...
Perhaps, as Sahil Mahtani tells us (“The Eyes of Doctor Fitzgerald,” comment, Apr. 25), we do live in an age of restless materialism and social anomie. Perhaps, though the comparison is a touch facile, our coming of age in the irrationally exuberant 1990s is just as bankrupt as that of Tom and Daisy Buchanan of Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age. And it is quite likely, though I’ve never been to it, that the Fly’s annual Gatsby party is neither nostalgic nor ironic. Yet to read...