Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that between Los Angeles and London. Then the imagined gap narrows. Each young woman is exceptionally intelligent, and each knows that she was chosen for her first role mostly for her looks, to please the camera as a pretty teenager. Each is the daughter of a prosperous and secure upper-middle-class family that was shaken by trauma. Sheedy's parents separated when she was nine, and she spent the rest of her childhood shuttling between two households nine blocks apart in Manhattan, never knowing where she had left her sneakers. Bonham Carter's father, a merchant banker, suffered...
...studio classes meet for a minimum of six hours a week, and concentrators must spend an additional 15 to 20 hours per week working on projects outside of class. A senior thesis is mandatory, but students are allowed to indulge their imaginations in a creative project or an upper-level class, as well as a written essay...
...departure "will leave the University without a scholar in ethnomusicology." The study of ethnomusicology as a branch of the department of music has had course offerings at the undergraduate and graudate levels for many years, taught by Pian, Prof. John M. Ward (retired last year), and myself. The chief upper-level course for those interested in the field is Music 185, Topics in Ethnomusicology, offered every year since 1979, most often jointly by Pian, Shapiro and Ward (thus affording an extraordinary student-teacher ratio!), and varying in its focus from year to year, so that it is repeatable only...
Joel Downer '89, who suffers from muscular dystrophy and is confined to a wheelchair, has had difficulty just being a philosophy concentrator. The department's offices and library are located on the upper floors of Emerson, which does not have an elevator or special lift...
...Emerson, remnants of renovations from approximately 25 years ago. R. Thomas Quinn, assistant dean of the College for facilities, says that the University ran out of money and could not finish the project. He added that he did not realize that a handicapped student needed access to the upper floors of the building...