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...This struck FM as a questionable practice, so we tested a random sampling of undergrads in order to see whether Harvard students would do better taking the SATs now, or if our best standardized days, along with curfews and chaperoned dances, are a thing of the past. 1. The ________ decor of the King’s palace left many in wonder of its grandeur. A) poor B) sybaritic C) luxuriant D) austere E) bucolic Most popular answer: C Correct answer: B 2. In Annenberg, a survey was conducted with the Class of 2012. In a class of 1666 students...
...That a 5ft. 9in. white kid would be seen as a hoops savior is just one cue that the HSM movies dwell in a Disney fantasyland. Another is the obsessively color-coordinated outfits the kids wear to school, and touches of extravagant decor, like Troy's tree house, as big as an Astaire-Rogers Deco suite, redecorated in retro-rustic. (The roof opens too, apparently at voice command.) The biggest leap of make-believe is that the high school experience is wunnnnnderful - though this view is no less reductive than the one, in so many comedies and horror movies, that...
...That a 5ft. 9in. white kid would be seen as a hoops savior is just one cue that the HSM movies dwell in a Disney fantasyland. Another is the obsessively color-coordinated outfits the kids wear to school, and touches of extravagant decor, like Troy's tree house, as big as an Astaire-Rogers Deco suite, redecorated in retro-rustic. (The roof opens too, apparently at voice command.) The biggest leap of make-believe is that the high school experience is wunnnnnderful - though this view is no less reductive than the one, in so many comedies and horror movies, that...
With the waning day peaking through the windows that look out onto Prescott Street, Rae Armantrout, one of the world’s most famous living postmodern poets, seated herself at a mahogany table and began to read to a couple dozen audience members amidst the stately decor of the Plimpton Room of the Humanities Center. Armantrout, whose newest collection of poems, “Verse,” will be published in February, decided to make a stop at Harvard yesterday after touring much of New England, for readings as well as personal travel. The event was described...
...religious beliefs he converted to some 15 years before writing Brideshead. No matter how they inconvenience us, they are not, in his view, to be whimsically or lightly set aside. But particularly in its adaptations, that theme - dubious as it seems to me - takes a definite second place to decor and dialogue. We are made to feel nostalgic for a lifestyle, but we are not forced to contemplate the mischief caused by a set of tyrannical and increasingly irrelevant ideals...