Word: reade
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...compiled his collegiate memories, loosely and occasionally associating them with his former music teacher's amazing vocal ability (a connection just as random as it sounds). While Chaudhuri claims the novel attempts to reconcile the English world with the protagonists Indian childhood, the pages read more like an inventory of incidents enveloped in a romantic haze...
...infuriating to have read in The Crimson ("Lowell Masters Stress House Ban on Assassin", March 4) that even the limited social offerings of the Houses are now under attack by administrators. For House Masters like Diana L. Eck to threaten Expulsion from the House community as a response to playing the game of "Assassin"--enjoyed by students across the country as harmless, cerebral fun--is preposterous and unjustifiable. Particularly amusing are the objections to the game's "violent" overtones, sentiments I suppose would resonate more soundly were they to come from an administration not currently maintaining relations with two convicted...
...mordant" social commentary referred to in the dust jacket doesn't get very far. The Internet is judged to be addictive. Drugs are seen as the modern equivalent of slavery. Television hypnotizes people. Consumption of Big Macs is morally reprehensible. No one needs to read a novel to figure these things out; one needs only to look around...
What is shocking this time around is the juxtaposition of reportage and fiction, creating a creepy sense of disjuncture in the collection. Ellroy has never been one to be bashful. One can read his memoir My Dark Places to get the full story on how he whored, drank and drugged most of his youth away. He readily talks about his heady days of breaking into houses on the other side of the track to sniff rich women's panties. Candor is not a surprise to anyone familiar with his work...
...month relationship developed. That's even stranger. But this story exhibits some of the characteristics of dorm romance that make it so sketch. You're a rare Harvard student if you haven't encountered dormcest after at least one semester. You don't know what to look for? Well, read on for some of dormcest's sketchy characteristics...