Word: dungeons
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...these entertainments find satiric fun in the inequities and absurdities of the English class system. But it is not so much fun to those in the lower castes. At mid-century, critics of the system saw class as a dungeon from which few escaped into the empyrean of recognized achievement: Oxford and Cambridge, the law and politics, banking and the higher arts. Then, in 1962-63, came a few hints that Britain might be opening up. The country was enjoying a pop-arts renaissance, spurred mostly by children of the working and lower-middle classes, in music (the Beatles...
...kill themselves, is a sepulchral stand-in for the writer (Whannel on all three films) and the director (James Wan on the first, Darren Lynn Bousman on the next two). They are playing the same murderous mind games on the audience - which is trapped, not in a urinal dungeon or a booby-trapped house, but in the darkness of a movie theater or rec room...
...editors: Re: “The Dungeon on Dunster Street,” comment, Oct. 3. It’s true. The Core office has stolen the soul of liberal arts from Harvard. It’s true that it can be a bureaucracy marked by arrogance in its personnel and inflexibility in its policy. It’s all true. The Core is, in a word, evil. Still, this need not be cause for despair and lamentation. Sure, they’re annoying. But have you noticed that they’re all the way over there on Dunster...
Around the globe, millions have followed the story of Natascha Kampusch, the girl who was kidnapped at age 10 and held prisoner for eight years in a windowless basement near Vienna, Austria. They have clicked through snapshots of her dungeon posted on the Internet, speculated in chat rooms about why she had never been discovered, and marveled at her eloquence in her first television interview last week...
Nicholas Daniloff ’56 says Harvard did not prepare him for the challenges he would face in his professional life. Perhaps that’s because his long career as a journalist would take him away from the ivory tower and into the dungeon of a jail. “Harvard fell down for me in that it was not very good at preparing students for anything other than further education,” Daniloff says.But what undergraduate education prepares a student for enemy capture?In 1986 while working as a correspondent for U.S. News and World Report...