Word: okaying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...middle-aged blue eyes, already a bit too bloodshot for this early in the night, followed my hand as it pulled out the reporter's pad, and then narrowed. "Hey, pal, no quotes, okay? We're all friends here tonight." A simian arm wrapped around my shoulders and pulled me into a fraternal hug; the buddy offered to buy me a drink, accepted my refusal as more sincere than I intended it, and vanished into the crowd. Not quite friends...
...They're going to X-ray it again tomorrow," Brown said yesterday, but it's really going to be okay...
...Daddy, why is everyone yelling 'boring, boring' at the band? I think they play okay...
...Okay. You've spent a week packing up all your belongings, tearfully saying goodbye to your boy/girl friend (as the case may be), psyching yourself up for the plunge into the big time, and now you, too, are ready to play one of Harvard's oldest and weirdest games. It's called Freshman Week, and everyone in the Class of 1982 can join in the fun. Freshman Week, like death, taxes, and papers, is one of those things that you just can't avoid. So you might as well make the best of it. Out advice...
...Placement test in French. Ho ho. Didn't get a 560 on your French achievement, did you? Well, if you do okay on this test you don't have to take a year of languages, which is nice. The tests aren't toohard, and they are offered in German, Spanish, Chemistry, Math, Italian, Latin, Modern Hebrew, Greek and Russian. The nonlanguage jobs are for placement only, and they all take place at various times throught the week. An unavoidable necessity, unless you're a non-science type who already placed out of the language requirement. In which case you ought...