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...frequently, I too would escape the high-school, let's-at-least-pretend-to-be-grown-ups world in which I normally functioned to descend to his cavern, trying to understand the man. Or at least to spend time with him--as if he were a child of my own divorced marriage and I had been granted only the most infrequent of visitation rights...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Memoriam | 1/23/1995 | See Source »

...appreciate the primal urge to descend from the stands in order to exact revenge on the victorious Elis. After all, they had the poor taste to win by almost twenty points in our own backyard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOING VIOLENCE RIGHT | 11/23/1994 | See Source »

Gloom never settled so quickly, before the foot lights as when Silver decides to preach issues. Pterodactyls does not descend emotional crests, it, plunges from them. In a Kathleen Turneresque growl, Grace bear down on Tommy with a triumphant speech, reaching the peak of her comic crescendo only to be interrupted by a gun discharging upstairs. Utter silence falls with the curtain as Todd intones. "Suddenly it became very cold." Manipulation reigns as Silver's king principle of craft...

Author: By Thomas Madsen, | Title: Pterodactyls Never Manages to Soar | 11/3/1994 | See Source »

...Harvardians gleefully stumbling around the Yard in a drunken haze and urinating on the steps of Memorial Church, or the thought of someone vomiting in a House courtyard. Still, it's downright frustrating to feel as if every year your college life must be put on hold while visitors descend upon the Charles...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Students Suffer On Head Weekend | 10/24/1994 | See Source »

Instead, it's for the prep school students who descend upon this city like a swarm of locusts, if locusts wore J. Crew barn jackets...

Author: By Emily Carrier, | Title: Head O'Charles | 10/22/1994 | See Source »

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