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...head, the attacks of near madness that (we know) augur her suicide. "And then all this incandescence led to the galloping horses in my heart the night before last," she writes after an overexertion. "I lay in bed reasoning that I could not come smash. Death I defy you, etc. But it was a terrific effort, holding on to the reins...
...dismissed from the building and barred from residence in any other dormitory...Radios, television sets, phonographs, and other audible equipment shall be adjusted so as not to disturb others...No students shall play boisterous games [e.g. dodge ball with the living room couch] in the Yard, in corridors, etc." Dragged in front of the College's disciplinary Administrative Board, you will be asked to explain everything, from the guy in the lampshade to the beer consumed by underage revelers. In a mysterious quirk in the system, your senior adviser will serve as both prosecutor, presenting evidence, and defense attorney, arguing...
This problem is past the fad stage and is on its way into the heart of American culture. Pac Man. Asteriods, Robotron. Bzeeeep-Bleeeep-Kzing! Etc. At Harvard, the games dominate entire social cliques. People do psych papers on them and plan class schedules around prime-time hours at their favorite areade. Play it safe and give all your quarters to the wheelchair basketball man who parks across from Out of Town News...
While members of Congress sound off loudly about food stamps, housing, medicare, transportation, public health, interest rates, etc., they offer almost total obedience to the actions of the Armed Services Committees. In other words they approve the budgets of the complicated Defense request for funds with little debate while at the same time expressing themselves loudly concerning funds for the entities mentioned above. They understand these items but have no choice but to approve items in the defense budget because they don't have information that could lead to informed debate...
...freshman at Harvard. While visiting his dorm I had occasion to use the women's rest room and was appalled by the squalid, if not filthy, condition of the facilities. The sinks were filled with hair and dried up toothpaste--there were empty plastic shampoo bottles etc, strewn on the floor. The showers seemed lined with scum. Were I a woman student at Harvard, I could not endure the daily assault on my sensibilities...