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...next night, Harvard squared off with Long Beach State. The 49ers are representative of another time-honored California breed: The Poser. (Usually seen holding a skate board or a surf board.) They look great. They talk a big game. But they are not very good...
...course, they do take time out from Tetris to go every year to the Head of the Charles and root for the home team, after stocking up on T-shirts, hot pretzels and beer. Thanks for your support, and enjoy those shirts. But we rowers know a poser shirt when we see one, and we know whom you are trying to fool...
...next night, Harvard squared off with Long Beach State. The 49ers are representative of another time-honored California breed: The Poser. (Usually seen holding a skate board or a surf board.) They look great. They talk a big game. But they are not very good...
...Does landscape enter the bloodstream with the milk?" The poser of this oddly shaped question, Ronald Blythe, is author of a classic documentary on English village life (Akenfield), and he permits no doubt about the answer. In this celebration of social roots, Blythe contrasts what he sees as the skittering superficiality of jet-age tourists with the intense thereness of stay-putters like the 19th century poet John Clare, who went mad when he had to leave the village where he was born. Blythe celebrates all nature except the open sea, which "makes us treacherous; it captures our senses...
...Bill Poser '79 says "My freshman year, I felt a sense of belonging in North House. When I was a sophomore, I realized that it was nice to have people around who weren't departmentalized...