Word: jock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ECONOMICS and athletics have long had a close relationship at Harvard; certainly, the Ec Jock is far more suited to the four letter epithet than his Gov counterpart. Finally, the mythical link between Kirkland House and the Economics Department has been made public...
...Harvard's vaunted safety nets and counseling resources are no better than the people who staff them. My proctor, Carla, was a former Eliot House crew and gov jock establishing her professional credentials at the Law School. She was nice, her live-in boyfriend was nice, her study breaks were nice. Whenever you talked to her about your problems, she would tell you how rowing helped her when she was depressed. A great help...
...counting cases of jock straps in a warehouse, I heard this gem. Next to a story about three nuns and an exercise bike, it is the worst attempt at humor I have ever seen. It goes as follows...
Early on, the audience has no problem pegging the players, as if they have come from an ex-jock's "as told to" book. The second-string catcher, named Boomer, is divorced by his wife during the game over the bullpen phone. He, by the way, is played by Peter Fox '72, an alumnus of the Hasty Pudding Theatrical Society. The pitching corps consists of Frito (Bobby DiCicco), a Bruce Springsteen-loving Hispanic; Duke (Wesley Thompson), a self-proclaimed persecuted Black; Moose (Vince Lucchesi), an over-the-hill knuckler; Ripper (Artie Gerunda), a Harvard educated alcoholic; and Tank (Eddie Frierson...
...Hughes' second film, The Breakfast Club, the mood is edgier and more combative: you and you and you and you and me against the whole rotten adult world. Five high schoolers--a jock (Emilio Estevez), a rebel (Judd Nelson), a brain (Anthony Michael Hall), a beatnik (Ally Sheedy) and a princess (Molly)-- spend a Saturday in detention. All they have in common are secret sins, an ache for camaraderie and a festering resentment of parental and school domination. There is little music, not much action, just kids sitting around talking. Good talk, though. The brain, ragged by the rebel...