Word: drunkenness
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...along Mt. Auburn St., its megaphone on. “The Red Sox are going to the World Series!” the policeman inside yelled over and over again, his voice amplified and distorted. When we got to Mass. Ave., we followed the crowds streaming into Harvard Yard; drunken undergraduates were massed around the John Harvard statue cheering on the band, which had ranged itself on the steps of University Hall. We kept running into people we knew. “Whoo,” we’d say to them. “Whoo...
...campus judging you based on what kind of animal is on the tie you wear to a dinner once a week. Some people will want to make friends with you because of some perceived qualities you have, and other people will just assume you’re a drunken marauding rapist who only comes out on Friday and Saturday nights...
...coast and back again, serial sea-changers in a state of transcontinental drift. There's caravan dweller Raelene, beaten senseless by her craypot-lugger husband, who looks for God between the bruises (The Turning). And teen tomboy Agnes, who spends her evenings wading the shallows for catfish after her drunken father is laid off from the local meatworks (Cockleshell). But most of all there's policeman's son Vic, who helps his mother clean rich people's houses after his dad leaves them, and later becomes a disenchanted lawyer. "In the end there was only a closed-down resignation...
...moment of truth came very late one drunken freshman night in the bowels of the Straus C staircase. Like many freshman entryways, ours was torn apart by drama so petty that when it made us bawl we had to cry all over again just thinking about how stupid we were. On this night, Barrett and I happened to have a shared enemy...
...condition themselves, and it is that sort of programming that UHS needs to combat. While those interviewed all described the UHS staff as helpful, friendly, professional and experienced and acknowledged that no disciplinary action had been taken against them, it shouldn’t require a drunken trip to UHS to convince anyone of their intentions...