Word: silent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more than just athletic events; they are a tradition. For almost everyone besides the statistician, a large part of that tradition is the marching band's half-time show. And the Harvard Band itself is steeped in tradition. Some band traditions, like the hand-shivering excitement cheer, are silent, and others, like band "Mom" Alice Tondel, are unseen (unless, of course, you try to sit in the band's seats during half-time). One tradition that is neither silent nor unseen looms over all others. For those of you who have never been to a football game or band concert...
Before you begin reading, go ask your roommate if you can borrow his pocket calculator. You'll probably need it as you peruse this column, because Mark Zbikowski and Tim Matthews aren't your average pigskin prophets. While members of the Cube sit in silent revery and appeal to divine inspiration when it comes to making predictions, Zbikowski and Matthews use the Science Center computer and a chain of statistical formulas to predict the outcomes of college games across the nation...
...bowels of Adams House, pass hecklers on the Lampoon steps, cross Mount Auburn Street where traffic will be halted by the Harvard police and to the tower of Lowell House where Master Bossert will crown the new czar. Then, in an atmosphere perhaps even more mysterious, the silent procession of audience and actors will return, passing by candlelight through the darkened halls of Adams underground tunnel. This prelude is only the beginning of the surprises that producer-director Peter Sellars '80 claims to hold in store for anyone who participates in this version of the story done with cue cards...
Francis Nicholas is the thin, terse man who is the governor of the reservation. His wispy appearance is hardly that of the first-rate green beret he once was. He is a reserved, silent man, saying only that he was in "the service" before his three years as governor of Pleasant Point...
...fact, Herman Melville was so wounded by critics that he wrote no fiction at all for 30 years. Says Psychoanalyst Yale Kramer, who is studying Melville's life: "He behaved like a child stubbornly remaining silent in a passive attempt at revenge." But even good reviews can bring on writer's block; they tend to paralyze by awakening great expectations. As Author Cyril Connolly, a part-time blockee, expressed it: "Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising...