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...still fairly strong when I arrived, and there was great condescension towards 'meatballs' or non-members. To see the clubs lose their hold broke no one's heart, I think." But he still seems to miss many of the traits that marked the old Harvard. "It was an awful goddamn thing when Harvard Square became the Left Bank of America" during the late 60s, he says. "What had been a comfortably, undistinguished place was now infested by all kinds of people looking for something that probably wasn't there anyway...
...town. For a second you can feel the elation that was Elvis; the man who gave a whole region a little bit of pride. And then it's gone and the whole thing's just too damn sad. All of it--this couple traveling six hours to see a goddamn Lincoln Continental, the Delco car ad display, the shiny Granadas. All those idiots buying t-shirts and pictures of the grave...
...shirts adorned with eagles, turtleneck sweaters and sports shirts?the group looked like healthy, but weary, American tourists as they sat on folding chairs for a 35-minute reception inside the airport terminal. Sipping coffee and orange juice, they expressed themselves in typical American idioms: "Fantastic, absolutely fantastic." "Pretty goddamn good, I'll tell ya." "It's good to be out of Khomeini land...
...Ambassador Hotel where Australian businessmen go to drink, carouse, hire prostitutes. The bars have names like Victoria Pub. The Ploughman, the Waltzing Matilda. Alex, who is New York Chinese, looks around us at the beaming, red faces of drunken Australians and observes that there is nothing in the whole goddamn place that's written in Chinese. We decide we have to do something very Taiwanese the next day. We take a bus to White Sand Bay, one of two sandy beaches on the island...
...school while the band plays the national anthem. But with the brass looking on, they run into problems--the halyards are too thick for the grommets in the corners of the flag, and try as they will--and they try as they will for fully five minutes--the goddamn thing will not go up. Finally, a little desperately, Colonel Phillips goes up to help. At last, the flag goes up and the band begins to play, the students snap up their salutes, forearms in wooden splints. Henderson has done his job well--they all use their right hands...