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Spotted on campus during the recent Junior Parents' Weekend, were a plethora of preppy classics, from crewneck sweaters over jeans and corduroys to Brooks Brothers and J. Press sports jackets and rep ties. Sparking the classic mix: blouson or jean jackets, retro-looking ski sweaters, and the very occasional flash of miniskirt-bared legs. Adding their own ineffable brand of casual chic were a group of French students touring Harvard, wearing the born-again preppie garb which, ironically, is also the latest rage in Paris...
...Decadency, Degeneracy, Perdition. She quietly unties her Adidas and proceeds to peel off her shoes, socks and sweaters, revealing her unhealthy, banana-colored skin. Having bravely ventured this far, she risks a glance at the other guilty ones. To her astonishment, Harvard beach is littered with uninhabited tennis shoes, crewneck sweaters and T-shirts--even with unread textbooks and blank paper passively but menacingly there. It appears people will do anything to feel the warm caress of the sun on their creepy, winter-whitened, fish-belly flesh. On her right, a young man who had been complaining about his work...
HERE IT IS: the book to illustrate the pictures in Life magazine. You remember those pictures: dormitory rooms sprinkled with brown-haired boys in crewneck sweaters and blue-eyed blondes stamped with ennui, their languid bodies frozen in glossy color, their fingers fading off into wisps of smoke. And you remember Life, the magazine which did for dope what the New York Times did for Charles Reich. But perhaps you weren't satisfied by Life. Or Look. Or Time or Newsweek or the Reader's Digest. Perhaps you want more...
...dollar a day, and you begin to see him without too much imagination; a dollar a day and you have bought your way into the conspiracy against him. But then, you wouldn't know about that. In your Bermuda shorts and crewneck sweater, your sweat socks and white tennis shoes and Jones Beach...
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