Word: corneres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Total strangers wandered through the dorm, madly introducing themselves, in search of instant friends. The nauseatingly sweet smell of incense (burned to cover the odor of dope) and the stench of old beer permeated the dorm. Music blared from every corner of the Yard, while huge groups of drunken men huddled and leered at women going from party to party. I got asked the big four questions--name, school, career plans, SAT scores--so often I could recite them in seconds (although I refused, as a matter of principle, to talk scores). After one night of parties...
...oversees all the graduate schools from his venerable Massachusetts Hall office, with the aid of four vice presidents. Except when dragged out by student activists like those concerned with South Africa, he keeps out of the headlines--emerging to release his president's report, which examines a different corner of the University each year (recent topics included the Business School, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and relations with the federal government...
...loosened my grip, and let the desk slip out of my hands; its full weight tumbled down on Ron, taking him totally by surprise. Down the stairs he rolled, limb over limb, flailing and silent; the desk mashed his head against a corner of the wooden rail, ripped his expensive IZOD shirt. A docksider moccasin flew off his foot. Bleeding from the mouth, he pulled himself up in a huff. He fetched his docksider and put it back...
...Harvard Exchange 'read pawnbroker', historic houses with leafy front yards and the National Guard armory. Brattle Street is chic Cambridge--its residents, the "Brattle Street liberal elite," are famous for their riches, their devotion to causes celebres, and their walls. If you don't see the wall at the corner of Brattle and Fresh Pond Parkway, your tuition has gone to waste. This serpentine wonder causes several traffic accidents a year, and if you're in luck a recent crash will have left a hole in the wall so you can go through it to make sure the backside...
...right, maybe the little cutup over there in the corner will never be Roddy McDowall in How Green Was My Valley. And maybe the princess maneuvering her Barbies around the doll house will never be Elizabeth Taylor in National Velvet or Jean Simmons making her way through Great Expectations and Olivier's Hamlet with certainty and erotic grace. But to one degree or another, most kids-even yours-are actors anyway. Before a camera, most could be great if they did not learn, for whatever reasons of self-defense, to be cute and lovable. They turn into the celluloid...