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...personalities," rather than "stereotypes." There was no single model for a Lowellite or Adamsian, and the profiles of the Houses were too quirky to be so limited. "The labels that are hung on each of the Houses are, everyone knows, more poetry than truth," according to the yearbook. Any student, its authors wrote, could be equally happy in any House...
Just when I thought the last echoes had faded away, Adams House is smacked once again in an editorial about the "No Interhouse Gong Show" ("Pack Up the Gong," Dec. 2). In keeping with your image of the belligerent Adamsian, I now present the "Crimson Editorial Gong Show...
First they convert their swimming pool into a theatre. Then, to inaugurate it, they fill it with transvestites. In true Adamsian style, La Cage aux Folles was staged as the first production in the Adams House Pool space. With its tidy sitcom plot, neatly resolved and well-acted, and its requisite cross-dressing humor and flamboyance, Harvey Fierstein's musical does justice to this theatre opening...
...stereotype is still true, but it's lessening," one anonymous senior Adamsian said...
...wonder what's happened since then--to Adams and to us. Since the huge randomization of last year's sophomores, transvestites and smokers are indeed growing scarcer as students clad in brightly colored oxford shirts make their quiet entrance onto the Adamsian stage...