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There are many other Harvard things to do--reading Kant, retrieving our papers from the snickering computer, comping the Crimson. But going for coffee brings us together. We still use it as paper procrastination. We still use it as an escape from hectic schedules...
...HAVEN--The scene: Atticus, one of those bookstore-cafes where chic people gather over cappacino and Kant. Matthew J. Reich, in his white and gray shirt, thin silver tie, and gray pin-stripe pants, looks as if he has just stepped off the pages of GQ. He blends in nicely with the wet slate-gray of the New Haven sidewalk outside...
...fangs. A few of his order independent shorts are also worthwhile, but it takes the big-bucks of advertising to give the Men and Women of Clay a chance to fly. The program whizzes through the ads to the best thing ever shown on MTV, John Fogerty's "Vanz Kant Danz" video, featuring a snivelling pig in a transformation sequence that is equalled only by the final and best short, "The Great Cognito," in which a nightclub impersonator's head actually becomes an entire ware movie. Shrapnel and everything...
Some theses simply display traits which are continued in later life. Henry A. Kissinger '50 wrote "Reflections on Spengler, Toynbee, and Kant." Not known for his brevity, Kissinger's thesis was 388 pages even after sections had been omitted. He wrote, "The length is due to the fact that I did not realize the implications of the subject when I started work on this thesis." The Government Department thereafter instituted a 120-page limit for senior theses, and students are expected to consider all of the implications of a subject before sitting down at the typewriter...
...math class was taught by a prof who combined the intellectual clarity of Immanuel Kant with the accent of Sgt. Schulz. This professor liked to verbally footnote his lectures, and as the semester wore on he dwelled at length on the logical niceties of increasingly obscure proofs, often forgetting to explain what he was trying to prove...