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...pretty relaxed guy. When strangers deliberately inflict physical pain upon me for no apparent reason, I just say, "It's cool." Yet as an undergraduate at Harvard, I have come across a few things that make me want to kill, or, at the very least, hurt. The most horrid of these is the Harvard Hiss...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Stop, Before It's Too Late | 12/15/1986 | See Source »

...enough to say that post-Animal House TSFs have been bad. They have been frightfully horrid. But to stop at that smug conclusion would be snobbish, and Dewitt has been trying for years to understand the culture of kitsch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scenes of Teens | 10/17/1985 | See Source »

...avenge the otherwise unpunished murder of his father, King Agamemnon. So did Hamlet, who could have killed Claudius at his prayers but then decided not to risk the possibility that the wicked uncle's soul might thus reach heaven. "No./ Up sword, and know thou a more horrid hent;/ When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage . . . / Then trip him, that . . . / his soul may be as damn'd and black/ As hell, whereto it goes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mengele:Non Requiescat in Pace | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...even when it's not exactly great, as in the second half of yesterday's 66-60 victory over St. Michael's College at Briggs Athletic Center, the squad is still far from horrid...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Undefeated Cagers Elude Purple Knights, 66-60 | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...Club. " Now, some 50 years later, her overweight saga has been published to enormous fanfare. Only one aspect of this heartwarming tale falters: Ladies itself. Through innumerable crises, illegitimate children, laudanum addiction, lesbianism and suicide, the many heroines remain mere mouthpieces. They speak of sex as "that horrid business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

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