Word: sanctum
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...stop it. Fitzgerald writes: "[The story] resonates with Biblical and mythological overtones... Reagan can be seen as the innocent, the American Everyman who on the eve of his election must undergo initiation into the terrible secrets of power. Led into the 'granite core' of a mountain - into the innermost sanctum of esoteric knowledge - he looks for the first time upon the horror that scientists and their masters have created for the country and for humankind." And so: "Reagan cuts through the arcane and dangerous knowledge with pure common sense and vows to deliver his people from impending doom." This...
...Then in the dream I saw a video from the Saint Boy's sanctum. The Boy is wearing the golden neck chains of Freedom. He is kneeling on a bed and delivering a speech in Spanish - a speech with emphatic gesticulations, and in my dream, I think to myself: They have, by this fanatical spiritual politics, metamorphosed the Boy into the Dictator. The Boy's video speech is a parody (simultaneously innocent and sinister) of the Beard's famously fervent and empty orations. Nice touch, Fellini...
After they are "tapped" for membership, the new Skulls are greeted in a dimly lit, dungeon-esque inner-sanctum by faceless seasoned Skulls in monk's cloaks. Later, as part of the initiation process, two of the pledges are required to enter a cage-like apparatus, which dates back to the 17th century and resembles a medieval torture device, and reveal their deepest, darkest secrets. And as an attempt to settle an irreconcilable dispute between two members there is a duel using archaic pistols. Apparently this is a common method of settling intra-Skulls disputes, since in the movie there...
...what really burned Soudavar, even more than the Advocate's "occasional cigarette tasting nights," was the use of the words "party room" to describe the chamber in which the Advocate throws "parties." "After all we don't refer publicly to [The Crimson's] 'Sanctum' as the Incest Room," he shot back cryptically in an e-mail message. He continued his defense with, "The Harvard Advocate is not 'shutting down the party room' because we do not have a 'party room.' We have a Reading Room, a Business Office, a Bathroom, a Design room, a Sanctum, and a Kitchen area...
...Conference room. Contains television, where Sports watches sports. Also home to daily dummy meetings, for news writers. Alicia and Anna voted this the place in the building where they'd most like to have sex. Mica preferred the Sanctum. Aaron and JP missed the vote...