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With election, candidates become editors. Every member of the CRIMSON is called an editor. It used to be a rule that candidates were not allowed to go upstairs to the "Sanctum," a dilapidated lounge for editors and their friends. Not any more...
...stand with 100 people in a deep, narrow, gaily decorated but solemn sanctum. You are quite possibly much different from the rest-you may be a student, or a devotee-head shaven-clothed in a plain saffron robe, or an elderly but open-minded adventures, or, perhaps, a Texan in town for the first time, your hair cropped closely around the edges, with your string tie held closely in place with a silver Longhorn clasp...
...reaction is embarrassment with the old him. During the preliminary physical examination, Medical Director Dr. R. Philip Smith smiles benevolently and says that you are not fat; it's just that "your chest has fallen a bit." Sucking in your stomach, you proceed into the lush, hushed inner sanctum of the Men's Spa. The design is Spanish modern, the ambience neo-Nero. Through glass walls you see a garden with a Roman pool gurgling in the sun. Stationed here and there like bouncers are the "gentlemen technicians," muscular young men in tight, white T-shirts who seem...
...music of it in my mind. I agreed to write about it. I kept the image of him alone and healthy reading his own poetry, astonishing songs of his own mind and making. Feeling less effete than I have in a long time. I walked into the Advocate sanctum after the meeting had ended and everyone had departed, traces of the carnage of Saturday night's Brautigan reception still heavy in the air. Fled for awhile at least that old vision; born at last I think...
...Advocate -sponsored readings at Harvard used to involve people like Robert Frost and Marianne Moore: they were events, and everyone in Cambridge attended them. Afterwards, the fortunate literati crowded about the bar in the Sanctum of the Advocate House and listened to performances. Late in the evening, the guest would be solemnly propelled over to the Register, where he signed his name, along with anyone else who was arrogant enough to think they deserved to be recorded as present...