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...stylistic quirks similarly mar otherwise breezy and enjoyable prose. Benfey has a tendency to hammer metaphor into oblivion. A similar tautological impulse marks his usage of apt and striking details. The New England ice shipped to New Orleans for use as refrigeration is mentioned prominently three times in fewer chapters. And phrases like "we will have more to say in coming chapters" are irritatingly common, tantalizing us as Benfey rambles down some other tangential avenue...
This policy results in the jailing of two first-years, splashed across the front pages of the newspaper while thousands of others drink themselves into oblivion at numerous tailgates. The policy does nothing to protect the safety or reputation of the students--all it does is make Harvard appear above the fray...
With the help of Synergy, Jem rocks Gwen's bare midriffed world into oblivion. Jem is adventure. Jem is excitement. Gwen is a crap girl from a crap suburb of L.A. with a crap little "jewel" on her head. The true poseur is not hologram-enhanced Jerica but Gwen Stefani, who is about as hardcore as a piece of Chewel...
...very sadly and told me 'you've ruined everything,' and then he walked down the stairs. I listened for the door to open and close but I never heard it." Perhaps he never left. Likewise, perhaps none of the ghosts of Harvard have departed. As their stories fade into oblivion, the memories and pictures seem more foggy in the minds of both those who try not to forget them as well as those who refuse to see them. As Cotton Mather, Class of 1678, insisted, there are a thousand "preternatural things" every day before our eyes.FM
...were to let the study of Classics wither away, or the study of Sanskrit fade into oblivion, what would be next? Archaeology? The Renaissance? Buddhism? Or perhaps the Industrial Revolution, which in today's high-tech information age might strike some people as something close to ancient history?" Rudenstine asked...