Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The supreme purpose of a college is to develop minds and character; it is not a farm club for professional sports, in theory anyway. Sports in college, therefore, is a diversion engaged in without animosity or dirty playing, regardless of talent. Economically favoring the athlete is prostituting that purpose. What...
This sort of journey-through-society script might have led to a movie that really moved with the erratic spontaneity of street life. But The Bicycle Thief is oddly static. Events move predictably and almost mechanically. Each small experience of the distraught hero is meticulously rounded and forced in sentiment...
All men trying for the grants must have completed at least two years of college in this country, be unmarried, and be between 19 and 25 years old in order to meet the requirements of founder Cecil Rhodes' will. Those chosen for the scholarships have, in the opinion of the...
These three simple-to-enforce rules would provide an excellent framework for extra-curricular activities. Undergraduate groups ought not to be compelled to act according to what the Dean's Office thinks is in the best interests of Harvard. The groups do not exist to further the ends of the...
Yet for so able a writer, Bowles fails to give his story much significance. Both Port and Kit are neurotic intellectual playchildren so short on real character and appeal that they seem hardly worth saving. The death of one and the madness of the other seem appropriate but by no...