Word: yellow
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...letter, which is much more optimistic about the possibilities for educational reform than was the Yellow Letter, Rosovsky touches on problem areas discussed by the task forces since 1974 including General Education, curricular requirements, diversity of the student body and the contradiction of purposes between teaching and research...
...letter, released today, is intended as an update of Rosovsky's 1974 Letter to the Faculty on Undergraduate Education--the so-called "Yellow Letter"--and as an introduction to the soon-to-be-released reports of his seven task forces on undergraduate education...
Since Rosovsky first outlined in the Yellow Letter what he perceived as the failings of undergraduate education at the College, his task forces "have concluded their investigations and made provisional recommendations for change," Rosovsky writes. "The present moment seems appropriate to indicate the major themes that have emerged in our deliberations," he states...
Compare this with the sensitively understated Gilman as prim Miss Prism, Cecily's spinster governess. Severe in a herringbone suit, her frizzy yellow hair drawn back tightly in a bun, Gilman stands in her characteristic pose, hands clasped in front of her, and expresses dismay, skepticism and repressed lust with utter conviction...
Algernon's clipped witticisms and Miss Prism's agonized confrontation with her own carelessness are the two high points of this production. But its real star is Joe Mobilia's sets, whose every detail--from the porcelain tea service to the yellow silk upholstered sofa--elegantly evokes late victorian decadence...