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When most people join the Harvard Cooperative Society, they get a little red or grey plastic card. But Stephen Waters '85 will get an engraved Harvard chair, a new suit, and--just maybe--a date with Miss U.S.A. 1982. Waters is the Coop's 100,000 member and will receive his gifts today, as the Coop celebrates its 100th anniversary...
Nestled in the grey-green Monadnock mountains of New Hampshire, there's a place--let's call it Pear valley-- where people gather during the summer to play chamber music and lose their virginity. Not quite a music camp, and certainly not a bunny farm, it defies conventional classification. Ask any of its devoted alumni (and there are dozens at Harvard) what it is, and you'll get a dreamy look and something like, "Oh, it's just magical. We went skinnydipping and played the Mendelsohn Octet until 4 a.m. Like, it's the most amazing experience I've ever...
Just as easily, however, a loss tonight can make 1982 one more soldier in that long, grey line of Lean Years, and send seniors Mike Watson, Wade Lau, Alan Litchfield and Scott Powers into the Harvard hockey Hall of Shame, joining the class of '81 as the only two never to play in the ECAC Championship since there have been ECAC Championships...
...venerable wills of Harvard Yard, the road would stretch through Yale or Oxford before making a U and returning to its place of origin. On the way, the ambitious traveller would acquire an appropriate understanding of Shakespeare, Milton and Joyce and a slightly varied collection of tweed or grey flannel suits...
...business; and Georgia (Jodi Thelen), a vivacious, lusty young debauchka who drives all three boys to be forever singing "Georgia in My Mind." Georgia is supposed to be dynamic--she has more personality than a pingpong bail has bounces--spewing endless tripe about her heroine Indoor Duncan, her first grey hair, her boundless love, and youth. Instead of responding to each other, the characters make embarrassing should-baring speeches. We care and know so little about them that they seem to be reading for a screen test for some other film...