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Most of the late September crowd seems to have heard Meyreles before. This is not the first time he's welcomed them "to Harvard Square, where you come to look for people crazier than you are." "That's why I'm out here," the musician says, peering into the audience. And the people still laugh...
...perception that the world gets crazier every day is not particularly new. It may not even be true. But the diverse people who hold this view have one thing in common: a good deal of spare time in which to muse. Novelist Walker Percy, 64, has made such free-floating contemplatives his trademark. From The Moviegoer (1961) on, his heroes have been thinking animals, unencumbered by the routines and demands of daily life. They are either feckless or rich...
...could return to Harvard as a 30-year-old junior. Of course, I've always been a freak. When I got even freakier from 1967 on, I almost went insane for a while; but I soon found out I was not alone, that the world was crazier than I was; being a freak could be fun, and besides, we freaks had a mission...
They laughed, they ridiculed, they looked at me as if I had just taken a called third strike in softball. You must be crazy, they said, even to consider this. You must be crazier, they said, to show your legs in public...
...more, who needs it? One solid week of review before vacation would approximate the time we actually get under the present system, and the prospect of a true vacation following exams would assuage some of the tension that always arises during this time. The atmosphere couldn't be any crazier than what exists every night in Harvard's libraries--believe me, when Hilles is full you know something's up. As things stand now, the menace of finals can ruin a vacation; and even worse, when exams finally end we are denied a significant respite from our labors by having...