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May 11, 2006
Who Says That Yale Is Selective?
Yesterday our copy of "The New World" on DVD arrived from Amazon. I haven't watched it yet, but for a few scenes (if only to gauge what it would look like on that great love of my life-ahem, aside from my wife-that flatscreen Samsung 40" LCD piece of electronic art in our living room). The closing scene, in which Pocahantas appears among the carefully ordered gardens of Stewart England after death and re-animated by her playful, natural erstwhile self, was stunning.
Unfortunately, the feeling didn't last. This morning, while searching for some odd feature of the DVD, I came across this review of the movie from the Yale Daily News. The authors opening and essential bone of contention is that this movie, un-Disneyfied and more visual than verbal as it is, was a miss on those grounds alone. That's really interesting.
I somehow thought Yale was selective in its admissions. Was I wrong?
Posted by dag at May 11, 2006 11:48 AM
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Yes, you were wrong. While I was living in New Haven, I met people at Yale that I'm surprised got into college, let alone Yale.
I would give my eyeteeth (I'm not sure what my eyeteeth are, but if I find them, I'd probably give them) to be able to study at a place like Yale. Fundamentally, Yale is not a university, but an institution. There's a lot of the "I'm a student at Yale, as my father was before me, and his father was before him" that occurs there...
Posted by: The Good Rabbi at May 11, 2006 9:18 PM