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...Cohen defends his hankering for repetition ad infinitum--his roommates would say ad nauseum. "I think a piece of music can still be interesting if you discover something new in it when you hear it again," he says. " Besides, my CD budget is not too large, so it's efficient...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: Maintaining a Healthy Perspective | 6/7/1990 | See Source »

...South Africa. Many of them, including Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu, specifically call upon Harvard to divest. Isolating South Africa has worked to effect positive change. Harvard's divesting will add significantly to that isolation. Divestment will not affect the quality of education at Harvard, and so on, ad nauseum...

Author: By Randal S. Jeffrey, | Title: Up the Ante | 4/5/1990 | See Source »

...There are no questions about time commitment or level of involvement with extracurriculars and academic work. Since lack of time is an endemic Harvard disease, how can you omit this aspect of our undergraduate experience from a survey that purports to examine "college life"? There are questions ad nauseum about house life, house community, house committees and house masters. But if no substantial house life actually exists, then the survey's questions won't be worth a farthing. In the survey, I put my extracurriculars at the top of my list of "meaningful" Harvard experiences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEMORANDUM | 4/11/1988 | See Source »

DISENCHANTED housewife...white house in Long Island fully-equipped with bounding sheepdog and Lincoln Continental...chic cocktail parties in Manhattan that one expects Robin Leach to attend...and other cliches of the Yuppie generation ad nauseum. "These are a few of our favorite things," croon the directors and producers of today's American film industry. With Hello Again, Director Frank Perry takes off on these themes and runs with them in circles...

Author: By Esther H. Won, | Title: Grave Mistake | 11/6/1987 | See Source »

Unfortunately, Ginsberg is at his weakest when he gets bogged down with repetitive political diatribe. He ends two different poems with the image of Einstein and the atomic bomb, and he criticizes President Reagan's policies ad nauseum...

Author: By R. C., | Title: Ginsberg's Dirtiest Collection | 11/20/1986 | See Source »

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