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While much of the Class of 1985 was scrambling around in grey suits and brushing up on their business lingo, Marc A. Elvy and Alan B. Langerman '85 were no doubt sitting back laughing at the entire scene. And next year when others go off to New York to work for big business, Elvy and Langerman will be working for themselves, running their computer consulting company...
...formal tone hardly ended at dining hall exits hat," "We never went to class without wearing a felt hat," Downes says. "That seems funny to me now What everyone wore--gabardine jackets, grey flannel trousers, and brown-and-white saddle shoes--was almost a costume...
...shuttled from country places to castles, possessed by magical thoughts: "If I stayed still enough, the motor would start. If I held my breath, the front door would not open . . . I made a bargain with myself not to cry, and then the coach would glide away, away from the grey house where nobody lived, away away away...
...course London is not always so vaunted. Swift's "A Description of a City Shower" is a famous portrait of the rancid gutters, but James Eyre Week's vision of the grey fog of people, "Lost and bewildered in the thickening mist" presents the wen at its gloomist. Also intriguing are Hannah More and William Parsons' words on the tumuluous bred riots that swept the nation towards the end of the century. And Mary Alcock's "The Chimney Sweeper's Complaint" whisks in the industrial fervor...
...light grey 1982 four-door Oldsmobile Cutlass was reported stolen from the fifth floor of the Everett Street garage. The crime allegedly took place between March 20 and April 16. Police have no suspects in the case...