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When first-year blocking groups are assigned to their respective houses, the placement process will be completely random, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 said yesterday...
...this is the same. And yet it is different. Last week it was possible to look at the bombing as a random act of violence, the sort of thing that will inevitably happen every few months. But now it is not as easy to bury our dead and to move on. Despair is deeper. Optimism and hope are waning...
Each group is a conglomeration of random people, reduced to baggage. Often, people sigh and say, "Well, I'd love to have John but you know he has Matt as baggage and maybe that means Ben and if Ben is attached to Liz. . .we just can't have that." Voices rise, "Jenny said she'll go wherever Dan goes and she brings Sarah and if we have Dan then we have to deal with Sarah." AHHHHH!!!! This class of the best and brightest disintegrate into little clusters where miscommunication and hostile feelings are the only assumptions that can safely been...
Sliding with smooth facility from jealous to tender, maternal to monstrous, Silje Normand cradles her sleeping lover in one of the play's most emotive and best-written segments. Her manner is stylishly minimalist and her accent, which vanishes and reappears at random, is delightful. Normand skillfully handles what is probably the most overtly melodramatic line in the play, screaming, with a sudden viciousness, "I want to strangle your dreams inside...
...just really scary how random and unexpected violence can be," she said...