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...realized, recently, that I've once again started to notice the Veritas emblems that abound here at Harvard. Sometime between a few days ago and my first few weeks as a first-year I had become used to drinking orange juice from Veritas paper cups and to wrapping muffins from the dinning hall in Veritas iron gate. However, recent events, in particular the speech given by Dr. Khallid Muhammad of the Nation of Islam and the discussion arranged by Jesse Jackson which followed the showing of the film "The Liberators," have forced Veritas back into my mind. What motto would...
...they rebuild homes wrecked by Hurricane Andrew. By night they drink, fight, smoke crack and sometimes kill. In the squalid roadside camps they call home, shotguns and 9-mm pistols abound, as do the tools of their trade: roofing knives. In one case a roofer's throat was cut so deeply he was nearly decapitated. In another a roofer shot and stabbed a drifter 100 times. Soldiers who patrolled the area say they saw a roofer bite off another man's ear, then spit...
...rhythm and minimal punctuation, the poems stir up a sense of defiance and even frightening hurt. Lines like "as, with a smile of pity and stealth,/ she buttered fresh scones/ for her guardian bones/ as they trampled him into the earth," which place violence next to seemingly harmless images, abound in these poems...
Students' complaints are motivated by the feeling that undergraduate library space is scarce, while faculty and graduate student study carrels abound...
Although moments of great writing and clever gags abound, the show is at times dull and, after some very witty opening scenes, fails to sustain interest for the duration of its two-hour running time...