Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sixty of those people gathered Friday night in Parlour B of the Freshman Union and sang "I've got peace like a river in my soul," clapping to the sound of three accompanying guitars, oblivious to the cynical pool and pinball players down the hall
...Mark O'Donnell said at the gala opening of his Tots in Tinseltown. One wonders about those in the Pudding. A homogenous mass composed of the adolescent suet of the land, the Pudding remains in its 1930's mold even today. In the oak-panelled room, the chic play pool under hanging metal-shaded bulbs. They dress in vests and slick their hair back, but these kids' costumes aren't just dress-up. Anyone passing at night on Holyoke St., looking in through the lighted arched windows, can see that they finger their cues smoothly. They know how to play...
...sheen of vaseline. Though not the well-sifted company of Strawberry Night--the showing to which only members of clubs are invited--still, everyone who should be here, is here, smahshing, absolutely dahshing, spectacle, the 'Asty's opening night. Champagne glasses litter every ledge; empty bottles cover the pool table (draped with a white cloth for the occasion). Everyone waves the bubbly with reckless dash over the floor or other people. The stuff flows freely; those present have paid $12.50 apiece for this status, but there is no cash in sight. All the green paper-work has been taken care...
...lights blaze on in the warm pool room and upstairs where the crocodiles smile. But it's nice out on the street; the klieg lights are off and the darkness is refreshingly cold. Too much Pudding leaves a sickly-sweet taste, like cheap champagne...
Besides the pianos, sports facilities, and expansion plans mentioned above, the Quad owns 15 TV's, 14 laundry rooms with 1-3 washers and 1-3 driers in each, a kitchen and a common living room on nearly every floor of every hall, 2 slate pool tables, innumerable practice, seminar, and study rooms, 6 ping-pong tables, pinball machines, 3 darkrooms, a film workshop with assets of over $2000, a sound recording studio (formerly Radio Radcliffe), 3 woodworking shops, two living rooms or lounges on the first floor of every hall, large art and dance studios, 2 prosperous grilles, plus...