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...once again upon us, and boy are they upon us. Colorful displays in store windows and Christmas trees in Harvard's houses remind us all each day that Santa Claus in imminently coming to town. In Winthrop House, however, a tree has summoned spirits of acrimony rather than good cheer...
...fame in the ancien regime, he is shown to be a loser and a power-hungry wretch. In the end, Marat himself is convinced by these torturers of his own base motives. He asks himself, "Each argument was true...and now...why does everything sound so false?" as they cheer him on sarcastically: "Marat for Dictator!" And all the while, there sits Sade, calmly savoring the tortured man's pain...
They are, as well, ferocious defenders of their individuality. In the movie's most carefully pointed passage, the older children, Pugsley and Wednesday (Jimmy Workman and the divinely evil Christina Ricci), are shipped off to summer camp, where their resistance to huggy communitarianism and conventional good cheer is exemplary. They can't be brainwashed, even when they are locked into a cabin with tapes of The Sound of Music and other uplifting material. Dragooned into the camp pageant, they organize the other misfits and contrive to burn their blond, blue-eyed chief tormentor at the stake. Bless their twisted souls...
Others argued that it's never too soon to spread Christmas cheer...
Most of the travelers had fairly simple goals. Carlyle I. Lincoln '95 and Kyun Park '95 said they planned to go to the game, meet people, enjoy themselves, and cheer...