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...their deeply emotional performances came to a fore two successive scenes—the first and second featuring Imafidon and Redko, respectively. In these particular scenes, Imafidon plays a patient who cannot move without exerting a great deal of effort, while Redko is afflicted by Tourette’s syndrom. Talking directly to the audience, Imafidon anguishes that “Everyday is a mental marathon,” and Redko laments that since there is no place in the world from him, he must create...
During Jordan's reign, the College at times took an almost irritating attitude of noblesse oblige. Radcliffe officials privately and publicly bemoaned the fate of qualified but rejected applicants doomed to educational mediocrity beyond the charmed circle of the Eastern syndrom. But by the late fifties, this attitude was gone for good. Pointing to a "serious crisis" in admissions policy, Jordan flatly declared, "Far too many students are applying to relatively few colleges." Only a week ago, President Bunting echoed his sentiments: "I am not convinced that Radcliffe is the only college in the world." The quantity of applications...
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