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...sports page of the issue with the story, "Coaches, Students Speak of Inequities for Women's Teams," and the editorial "Level the Fields," I find three stories about men's sports, totaling 42 column inches of text: under a 30-point headline across the top, a lead story of 17 column inches detailing a serious loss by the men's basketball team to Dartmouth, which dropped the team's record to 2-4; a story about a member of the Dartmouth men's basketball team; and a story about Wade Boggs...
...fighter, battered on the wheel of men's lust but still defiantly erect. The actors' posture is important here. As Anna's negligent father, Rip Torn walks with the cramped stride of a man who stays upright by lying to himself -- even as Torn remains true to the text by speaking in the obscure diction of the Muppets' Swedish Chef. And Liam Neeson, wonderfully direct as Anna's would-be redeemer of a beau, lurches from anger to perplexity. He is like a backward child with an oversize soul...
...hope my inference is clear. The A's go to people who wake us up, who talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The B's go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly hooped letters with circles over the i's.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz's fallacies with their mothers. They often get A's too, but as Mr. Carswell points...
...There's no scientific way to analyze astudent's text," said Brustein. He said thatgrading in the humanities would be destroyed ifreduced to a "true-false" completely objectivemethod...
Orion Ross directs the play with a scope and insight so engaging that they could only have arisen from his clear vision of his own adaptation. That adaptation is not ideal: it attempts to maintain the original text, but important phrases are "translated" into modern English. Since the important phrases are mainly sexual slang, this sometimes leads to clumsy contrast...