Word: formative
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more seriously, the second act, when the women reappear as 23-year-olds, suffers as Ravenal tries to force more deep meanings than the revue format can sustain. Throughout the first act each character never has to be an individual. But in the second act, each woman suffers a major, almost debilitating collapse of some kind or other which is necessary to complete Ravenal's revue of women's experience. The life crisis that all the actresses suffer, however, could only be believable if complicated people were suffering them. And surely one woman out of five might have emerged from...
...council revised the reforms to state that individual tutorials represent "in many cases, though not all," the superior tutorial format...
When lawyers go to heaven, and a few presumably do, these are no doubt the kinds of matters they discuss over lunch. Now heaven can wait. The American Lawyer, which served up the aforesaid juicy items this week, and two other new tabloid-format papers, are busy attending to the profession's voracious appetite for scandal, scuttlebutt and shoptalk. Unlike hundreds of established legal journals, newspapers and newsletters, which concern themselves chiefly with issues and trends in the law, the new papers emphasize lawyers per se, ad hominem and in flagrante delicto. Also how and where lawyers work, what...
Council members argued that often the group tutorial is, in fact, a preferable format to the "one-to-one, faculty-student ratio" which Bowersock's report cited as the 'ideal goal" of his reforms. In particular, council members objected to the report's implication that group tutorials only rate "second-best...
...walks in with a wisecrack. Neither the intellectual pomp inherent in the lecture format, nor the stolid, somber Eliot House library can dampen his compulsive sense of humor. "The plays are the essence of me," he says. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say he is the essence of his plays; his wit flows so effortlessly, so smoothly that it seems innate. Neil Simon, apparently can't help being funny...