Word: livelli
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite such glowing praise, however, one questions what is learned on tours. Thomas J. Livelli '99, a Crimson Key guide, asserts that "The facts that you are supposed to deliver aren't fictional. How many facts do I make fictional might be another issue." What difference, though, does it really make? How much of the information makes an impression on the tourist's mind...
John Stevens--Sarah's father--learned from his tour guide the names of the presidents of both Harvard and Radcliffe, a fact that proved beyond Livelli's grasp...
When asked who the president of Radcliffe is, Livelli asserted that it is definitely "Linda somebody." Livelli was able to name the president of Harvard, however, but when asked about President Rudenstine, Livelli pondered, "Does Neil exist? I saw him once, but I thought that it might have been a cardboard cutout...
...Livelli has "expressed" himself upon the John Harvard statue, but finds comfort in the belief that, "I think that there is probably less urine on the foot of John Harvard than there is on beer nuts in a bar because people drink a lot of beer and go to the bathroom all the time, and they don't wash their hands, leaving a very high urine content on nuts at bars. So don't be touching other people's nuts!" Best and brightest indeed...
What is less encouraging is the motivation of those that function as the intermediates between Harvard and its stream of tourists. Why would one want to be a member of the Crimson Key? Livelli answers, "A good reason would be to demonstrate your love to the university and develop your sense of history, etc. A real reason would be because there tends to be a good number of good-looking girls in the Key compared; oh no, I can't say that. I am going to make a lot of enemies with this interview...