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...Fred: ... and one of the things that keeps popping up is this about subtext. Plays, novels, songs - they all have a subtext which I take to mean a hidden message or import of some kind. So subtext we know. But what do you call the message or meaning that's right there on the surface, completely open and obvious - they never talk about that. What do you call - what's above the subtext...
...Fred Upton Freddo...
...member Fred O. Smith '04, who organized the program, said he thought the first-time event was a success...
...studio exec complained, "like a taxi with both doors open." (Crosby, who refused the mogul's demand that he have his ears taped to his head, did allow them to become a friendly butt of humor in his later career.) What one movie boss supposedly said after seeing a Fred Astaire screen test - "Can't act. Can't sing. Balding. Can dance a little" - could be applied to the young Crosby by switching the "sing" and "dance...
...also fail to realize that specialization in athletics parallels a greater societal trend towards specialization, especially at the schools the authors studied. The faculty and the course offerings in all the departments at Harvard are more specialized now than they were 50 years ago. As Princeton Dean of Admissions Fred Hargadon said, the "baby" has changed but so has the "bathwater...