Word: exeunt
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...fashioned to imagine that Harvard is—or was, for us graduates—our time for intellectual reflection. Out of that undertaking comes a lurking sensation that has taken hold of me and many on the precipice of our exeunt from the academy: that the placid narrow-mindedness dreamt up at Harvard will not survive the turbulent outside world. Today, we should be anxious, but exhilarated, by the onset of a reality beyond the collegiate kind...
...read a letter from a Congressman who promised better things. He began, paused, then took out a pair of glasses. "Gentlemen," he said, "you will permit me to put on my spectacles, for I have not only grown gray but almost blind in the service of my country." Exeunt omnes. End of the mutiny...
...declared their pastime illegal. Communicants file up to the altar rail for a long drag on a cigarette - a precious, stale relic from the last carton of Marlboros sold before the U.S. government banned smoking in 2007. The priest blesses the faithful, they cough in response, and all exeunt to today's hymn, "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes...
After his exeunt from the citizens of Massachusetts, a poor attempt at national eclat and a wretched first novel, Weld has finally dug his own grave. By leaving Susan Weld and their five children and deciding to "date" while still married to his lady-wife, Weld clearly aspires to Clintonesque activities. Does he truly think his image will remain as Teflon as the President? By thinking that his middle-aged paunch and balding head might possibly be attractive on-screen, in addition to his deplorable treatment of his wife, Weld has remade himself into a less than admirable public figure...
...Exeunt stage right...