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While such statements make Lithgow sound like he was a pretentious theater kid, he makes a compelling and typically Harvardian argument for the merits of his attitude. He says theater at Harvard “was pretty cliquey. There were rival camps; there was ferocious competition for slots. That’s the terrain, but also, we were cutting our teeth. You learn a lot more from that...
While the Lampoon-heavy writing staff of “The Simpsons” make generous use of Harvardian allusions (the curator of the Springfield Historical Society is named Hollis Hurlbut), Schur says he doesn’t rely on college for comedy. “I don’t think undergraduate experiences have really tangibly ‘shown up in my writing’ per se,” he writes, “except perhaps in some kind of Proustian/Spinozan collective conscious experience way. Please do not write that I used ‘Proustian/Spinozan collective...
They’re the Harvardian equivalent of a Phys-Ed All Star, but without all of the genuine enthusiasm and with a lot more self-loathing (or maybe just loathing...
Thanks to those signature Harvardian social skills and a healthy dose of pre-Federline Britney, the atmosphere ended up smacking of a middle school dance. Pfoho Dining Hall morphed into the sweaty gym where the best we could hope for was a fly-out double. River-dwellers lining up for shuttle rides back to the Square bore an unfortunate resemblance to eighth graders climbing into Mom’s minivan. Still, the Zima bottles were a nice touch, and props are in order to the badass sporting a full-size Flavor Flav clock swinging from his neck. Fight the power...
...developing a burgeoning undergrad fan base. The latest episode of the Harvard sitcom, which claims to be “redefining America’s soap opera,” features rule-breaking romance and sinisterly flirtatious freshmen. But will the back-stabbing, scandals, and sexscapades of the Harvardian specimen ever rival the creme de la creme of self-indulgent, mindless programming—that is, The OC? FM investigates...