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While the smaller weekly meetings were said to be enjoyable challenges, active SCA dians confess they were mere stepping stones compared to the one grant-like monthly SCA event. Lasting up to 12 hours, these bashes may include a jousting match, a revel or feast, or the rare Coronation of a King and Queen...
...reunioners aren't oblivious to these doctorings. But they revel in them. "They did the same thing 25 years ago," said one. "They even painted concrete green. But the Yard is beautiful...
HARVARD STUDENTS complain about everything from Food Services to scholars who last revised their lecture notes while consulting for the Eisenhower Administration. We revel in self-pity, especially when forced to digest large quantities of coursework in a short period of time. In Lowell House, some of my colleagues derive a strange pleasure from spending exam periods huddled in the dining hall, comparing the huge castles they have built out of unread history books and scientific manuals...
...Damage may run as high as $4 million. In Caracas, which depends on the plant for 50% of its electricity, Christmas lights were dimmed and elevator use was curtailed. President Luis Herrera Campins maintained a roundthe-clock vigil, and on the country's beaches where holiday crowds traditionally revel, somber Venezuelans respected a three-day mourning period by singing public funeral Masses...
...MANY judgemental errors mar the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players fall production at the Agassiz Theatre. Their poor choice of opera, lackadaisical musical and dramatic staging, and inconsistent performing spoil the fun for everyone. Even G&S aficionados who ordinarily revel in riproarious productions of favorites like The Mikado and the H.M.S. Pinafore--will have a hard time sitting through this long and uninspired production of Utopia Limited or Flowers of Progress. We watch the operetta wilt before our eyes...