Word: kroks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ends and the Ryder Cup spectators make their way to the dining room charmed by the young men of Harvard, a buzz that might last another 18 holes. After the semi-formal crowd has gone, the Kroks return to the Upstairs Bar to kill some time before their next show. With the mutual fund managers gone, the room has returned to its rightful owners. An abandoned martini sits on the fireplace mantle, the olive within more closely resembling a preserved biology specimen than a cocktail. A fire blazes beneath the mantle; the air conditioner whirs in the corner. The charmed...
...Sophomore Henry Rich, meanwhile, a special concentrator in aesthetics, secludes himself in the corner and reads T.S. Eliot poems into his dictaphone for later listening during his workout at the gym. Others pull up to the bar where, incongruously, they drink water. But it's good to be a Krok, it seems. They joke and laugh, despite their evident differences, because these guys are tightoor as Kirk Bangstad, a senior baritone with a million-dollar smile, puts it half laughingly, half wistfully, "Once you get in the group, that is your social life...
...There is also, however, a certain distance the members put between one another that is palpable. The Kroks spend their entire summer together every year, crisscrossing the globe and by the end of tour, tensions run high. "I was ready to kill everyone in the group," one member explains. The Kroks spend a dozen hours or so together during the average school week and then band together as, perhaps, the only (mostly) fair-skinned, English speaking people in some of the exotic places they visit. To avoid conflict, they realize certain compromises must be made. The first is that they...
...going to want to come out to see the Krok[odiloe]s or the Opportunes," Hughes added...
Tickets are six dollars for students and 10 dollars for adults and may be purchased at the Sanders Theater Box Office or from any Krok member...