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...denied it, of course.) Yet the phenomenon continued throughout freshman year. At night I would check the toothpaste carefully, and put the cover on tightly. Every morning I would rush to the sink and unscrew the toothpaste, and there it was--a series of brown hairs stuck smack dab in the middle of the tube opening...
...does express a cloudy sort of religion, claiming vague connections with both Christianity and the major faiths of the East (New Agers like to say that Jesus spent 18 years in India absorbing Hinduism and the teachings of Buddha), plus an occasional dab of pantheism and sorcery. The underlying faith is a lack of faith in the orthodoxies of rationalism, high technology, routine living, spiritual law-and-order. Somehow, the New Agers believe, there must be some secret and mysterious shortcut or alternative path to happiness and health. And nobody ever really dies...
...here at Harvard, you are smack-dab in the middle of all the tradition of All Hallow's Eve (the apostrophe in the middle is to shorten `evening'). For starters Harvard's very location is at the center of a mystically important region. Cambridge itself, and New England, in general, are the birthplace of American mysticism and folklore...
...queen because he was digging up his parents' old septic tank and transporting it to the town dump. But, he said, it was just a . . . well, prevarication to say that hauling his load of "thirty years of family history" (nice phrase), he made a wrong turn and ran smack-dab into the National Guard tank that was Carla's float in the parade...
...research, I began with imported beer. In an ideal world, perhaps, I would have cases of DAB or Dortmunder flown over from Germany, but assuming some financial constraints I concentrated on those brands widely available in America. The Beck's ads claim that no matter where you go in this country: "The word around town is Beck's." I was turned off, however, by the images of men in their forties trying to sport Don Johnson pajama pants and Ray-bans while hawking brew. Strike...