Word: marius
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...degree in Interview (whose later film spawned my eighth-grade obsession with Brad Pitt) was Armand, the head of the Paris coven of vampires. How was it that Armand rose to such otherworldly prominence? Armand relates its title character's rise from slavery to vampirism under the tutelage of Marius, a beautiful and seemingly omnipotent predator long in the business of the undead. In both language and imagery, Rice skillfully immerses her reader in the world of vampirism, a realm of drawing rooms and bed chambers, sumptuous meals, perfumed sheets, unabashed seduction and lascivious blood thirst. The diction itself...
...vampire as drinking blood. Armand's coming-of-age becomes a veritable Debbie Does Dallas as he screws his way across Europe. As subtle as Rice is in her sexual descriptions and as cheerfully dirty-minded as I am, however, I'm convinced that it was the baths between Marius and Armand, the sadomasochistic romps and the vampire-mortal orgy that made me put this book down numerous times with a pitching in my stomach. And yet, as you may be thinking, I returned to it, only to leave with the same results. Why? Simply...
Lauren Kim '98-'99 recited Alfred, LordTennyson's "Ulysses" which Marius called aperennial contest favorite. James M. Cocola '98 ofWinthrop House gave a chilling rendition of"Herbert White" by Frank L. Bidart...
According to Marius, the Boylston Contest hasseen a decline in the number of participants overthe years, although current competitors retain thehigh level of skill...
...Marius sees the decline in participants assymptomatic of a general decline in the quality ofpublic speaking at Harvard. "If I had it my way,we'd have a speech clinic here," he said...