Word: endless
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Despite its endless applicability, Les Miserables is successful simply because it is one of the most entertaining pieces of theater to surface during the last decade. In 23,000 performances since Cameron Mackintosh and the Royal Shakespeare Company first produced it in London, thirty-six million people have enjoyed Claude-Michel Schonberg's memorable melodies and Herbert Kretzmer's powerful, alarmingly addictive lyrics...
...YEARS AMERICANS have been trying to learn the lessons of Vietnam while disagreeing on what they are. Given that endless debate, it was inevitable that Robert McNamara would conclude his controversial new book, In Retrospect, with a chapter on the lessons of the war. "I don't think the country has yet learned the lessons," he said in an interview with Time last week. "If it had, I wouldn't have written the book." McNamara points to the dangers of underestimating nationalism, of faulty evaluations, of asking the military to achieve more than weapons can deliver. The nation worries through...
...moist upon recalling that fateful weekend in April of years past, when we ourselves first tasted the sweet fruit of the veritas vine. Or was it the wine made from the fermented fruit? Ah, yes, the joys of pre-frosh weekend. We recall the Scarlet Folders (so shameful!, the endless self-introductions, the relentless lines at the Union, the roving packs of frustrated party-seekers, the foamy keg in Matthews, the Greys party's recycling bin filled with vodka and Kool-Aid...and that's all we remember...
What did I get? More harangues. My radio isapparently missing the button that lets you mutethe endless pleas for cash once you've sent inenough money to assuage your own conscience...
Well, it was downhill from there. Beer and nachos, diaquiris and nachos, margaritas and nachos, margaritas and beer--these filled a few nights each week for the next couple of months. I found in myself a seemingly endless tolerance. Once a week the grad students played the faculty and everyone else (meaning me) in softball; the profs wouldn't even take the field until the beer came...