Word: angst
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Ditto for "The Unsupervised Infant." Litt's workshop creation, though full of energy and hysterically hyperexagerrated Jewish angst, has a disturbing stream-of-consciousness aura which smacks of rancid Saturday Night Live. And it's silly to boot...
...working mother is hardly the professional woman with one child and a flexible job. The real heroine is a single parent working in a factory with four kids." O'Neill adds, "I have a supportive husband, a wonderful daughter, an extended family nearby. It's not a lot of angst...
DORRIE'S FILM is aimed at yuppies; the fears that Julius has are typical yuppie angst, his problems, yuppie difficulties. The humor is even yuppie humor. For instance, Julius and his new roomie, Stefan (Uwe Ochsenknecht), are doing their laundry and he foolishly puts his blue jeans in with the rest of the load. Of course, the entire wash turns blue. Stefan, who is an illustrator gets annoyed at first, but then says reflectively, "I guess I'll be in my blue phase...
When most grads are asked to describe their time at the GSD, their answer inevitably boils down to one word: tough. "It was angst-ridden. It wasn't fun, but that's not why I was supposed to be there," says Janet Josselyn (MAR '84). "Part of the problem is that you come out overtrained," says Eugene Lew (MAR '61). But now that Lew has his own practice, he believes that "it's no question that the training paid...
Despite the angst, many people feel the contact with brilliant and diverse students is the most important aspect of an education in Cambridge. Says Cohen: "You know when you come that you have joined the company of some very, very select people." Grant Colfax, a senior biology major who never went to school but was educated at home in California by his parents, says, "The student body here has been every bit as influential as any of my classes, possibly more influential." His brother Drew, also educated at home, is a freshman this fall. Among Drew's arriving classmates will...