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...random sample of 20 Tufts undergraduates agreed with Susan T. Murray, Tufts '76, who said, "I'm very pleased and happy, because from what I've heard, he seems to be a fantastic person and a really neat...
Charles W. Nordin, a fourth-year student at the Medical School, said yesterday that the faculty's "attempt to prevent random wanderings through the curriculum" is an "attempt to implement the traditional notion of education...
...supplanted by applicants of similar enthusiasm. Now, let's consider a case where the House in question is under-subscribed, such as Currier. These groups who put it as their first choice, who under the old system would have been guaranteed admittance, are now solely at the mercy of random numbers. If their number is 425, they will see their favorite filled by people who distinctly hate it and have it listed as 9th, or even 10th...
...slums and mansions and creating racist distinctions. Imperialism twists social relations, turns rebels into sexual perverts and capitalists into unsuspecting in-stigators of revolution. The simple black and white definitions are not adequate for the scorched and ambiguous flora and fauna of this island--they do not explain the random murders and the failure of revolution. Instead, Naipaul explains these failures by the fact that imperialism has claimed with it even Jimmy Ahmed, who dreams of the approval of upper-class white women and of personal advancement. The reggae music that floats up to the rich part of the city...
...struts around the stage with a sustained smirk. While this approach works adequately in the comic sequences, Pajaczkowski lacks the dramatic range necessary to convey the full gamut of Faustus' tormented self-questioning. In addition, he experiences no minor difficulty reciting Marlowe's verse, placing his emphases seemingly at random--as though he knew some accents were needed, but neither he nor Morphos could figure out just where. In his last soliloquy, Pajaczkowski finally captures some of the agony of impending damnation, but the emotion he manifests here is insufficient to redeem the shallowness of the rest of his performance...