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Last Saturday night the water polo team got drunk and swam up and down the Charles River. While the group played leap frog on the Wecks and Lars Anderson Bridges, somewhere its competition in the second Boston invitational championship was fast asleep...
...whole game was rather relaxed, in fact so relaxed that the Engineers were able to boot, drop. bobble, kick, and fumble their way to a less than sparkling nine errors. Harvarden rout to its 13th victory against two defeats, was a bit more alert, falling asleep at the switch only three times. In fact. if this were St. Louis, the big red "E" on the Budweiser scoreboard would've burned out from overuse...
...case, Americal Division officers conceded that the base was unprepared. "Somebody out there screwed up," one U.S. sergeant concluded. "The guards were asleep and the gunners never got their guns down into final defensive positions." SP/4 Schulte found a broader moral in Mary Ann: "A lot of us spend 300 or 360 days a year in the jungle. We sleep in the rain, we eat out of cans, we stay wet ,ten or twelve days straight, until our bodies look like wrinkled prunes. The people back in the States think this war is over...
...warning voice but not a threat to lackadaisical players. "You can't be a tutor to a team. You know the saying, 'He who can, but doesn't know that he can needs help.' Well, he who can, and knows that he can, and still doesn't, he's asleep...
...sympathies lie. In the final pages of The Four-Gated City, she had already worked out a theory that what is commonly called madness may often be extraordinary vision-an anticipation of the next evolution of mankind. Like Watkins, she is prepared to believe that "normal" man is half asleep and that only certain "abnormal" men and women, the avant-garde of a mutation of the species, can see real reality...