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...They come pouring forth from long unexplored recesses of my mind. Strange. The memories of the tutorials, the seminars, the lectures and the classes—the very reason for attending Fair Harvard—are shrouded, misty. Sure. I recall John Finley’s final Hum 3 lecture. I remember being awed by Professors James Q. Wilson and Otto Eckstein as well as being astounded by Stanley Hoffman and Michael Waltzer. But I haven’t the foggiest memory of what any of them actually said...
When Sean Day hears the wail of a saxophone, he sees a writhing mass of neon-purple snakes hovering in the air. The hum of a harmonica, on the other hand, has a pleasantly greenish hue, while plunking pianos evoke a fine blue mist. Eating is colorful too. When Day takes a spoonful of mango sorbet, the wall before him turns lime green, rippled with cherry-red stripes...
...grade inflation (Opinion, “The Racial Theory of Grade Inflation,” April 23). The graph, showing the percentage of students on the Dean’s List from 1921 until now, supports my argument rather than his, and my concern rather than his ho-hum attitude on the matter...
...behavior for clues to her mysterious malady. As a child, Clara writes, Jessy sometimes seemed to neither see nor hear--she gazed through people as through glass--yet her visual perception was so acute that she could assemble puzzles picture-side-down, and her ears detected the faintest buzz, hum or click of a household appliance. Though she did not acquire a usable vocabulary until she was five, a few years later she effortlessly mastered arcane mathematical concepts and Morse code. Indeed, her facility with patterns and order led her to create--and be ruled by--her own obsessive systems...
...prospect facing viewers right now is three more weeks of ho-hum party-line expulsion. This is the soft, flabby middle of the show, and something CBS may want to consider tinkering with for "Survivor 3." This year, it's a misstep for CBS' juggernaut to stiff its fans with a lame-as-possible clips show just as viewer eyelids are at their heaviest...