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...knee-jerk tendency at year's end is to look back and decry the 12 months at hand as the most dismal, most indicative of civilization's downward arc since, well, the 12 months before this. 1996, with enough depressing cultural offerings to warm a pessimist's heart, may not change a Scrooge's mind on this score. Perhaps 1996 will even be remembered as the year of the somewhat desperate exclamation point: That Thing You Do! Suddenly Susan! Lamar...
...pessimist would conclude that the Crimson is choking just as the season enters its critical phase. According to this view, the loss to B.C. left a mental scar. Now, the Crimson is so anxious with a lead that it has become nearly impossible for the team to close out a game...
...even Samuel Beckett, the Irish pessimist who was born on Good Friday--the 13th--and whose fondest artistic hope was to "fail better," might have smiled at the glory of it all. Beckett (1906-89) would have been 90 this year, and to celebrate his indelible mark on the modern spirit, the Gate Theatre of Dublin came to New York City's Lincoln Center with productions of all 19 works he wrote for the stage, from the full-length Waiting for Godot, Endgame and Happy Days to the 40-second Breath. (Another 13 pieces were composed for radio...
...rumored that the last official long-term study on the "status" of women at Harvard was done in the early 1970s. While the pessimist might say the study is just as relevant now because very little has changed since then, there has been at least one fundamental change--at the time of the last study, women undergraduates still attended Radcliffe College. It is a grave problem that the impact of the major structural change of the merger between the two colleges in 1977 has not been examined. Women have only attended Harvard for a fraction of its history...
...week radio's Brahmin of bullies, 66, was disconnected from his audience on New York City's WABC. The apparent provocation: his speculation, on hearing of the crash of a plane carrying Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, that Brown would be the one survivor--"because, at heart, I'm a pessimist...