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...says. Even when you spell everything out and try to discourage somebody from coming, coming to Harvard is an overriding consideration. That consideration, of being at Harvard, can obscure the importance of other consideration." "Students also heat what to hear," she adds. "I'm not sure that they're willing consider some of the things that they're told about the situation. Of course, in many they really didn't have any idea, even it it was described to them. It's hard to know just from a description what an impact the residential House will have if in fact...

Author: By Nina E. Sonenberg, | Title: The Undergraduate Under class? | 5/22/1985 | See Source »

...popular because it's billed as a cheery aphrodisiac--people who have taken it tend to moon about holding hands and professing their oneness with all things ambulatory and the more shapely inanimate objects. Two female acquaintances of mine, while under its spell, came up to me with sparks in their eyes and told me, "I love you." This happens to me a lot, but most people would be taken aback, and would suspect such tenders. However, XTC is a relatively benign drug, and a few hours suffice to fade its apostles back down to our usual condition, where...

Author: By Theodore P. Friend, | Title: The Divestment Wonder-Drug | 5/2/1985 | See Source »

Like Dylan, Thompson has the rarely found depth that allows him to appeal to your sympathy one minute and kick you in the balls the next. No song on this new disk exemplifies this better than the first one, "When The Spell Is Broken." The minor chords issuing from Thompson's twangy, vibrettoed guitar rumble and lament like a Scottish funural dirge, and his solo swoops gracefully and reverently around them. The words, though, are pure vitriol, worthy of an especially pissed-off Dylan or a younger Graham Parker. The extremity of its despair makes this song frightening, with appropriately...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: To Be The Very Best | 4/26/1985 | See Source »

Much of the show was very sad, filled with songs telling of his troubles with his wife, Linda. Opening with a note-perfect rendition of "Where The Spell Is Broken," he followed with Glow I Wanted To" from Hand Of Kindness and later "Withered And Died" from Bright Lights, two morbidly depressing songs about the frustration of helplessly watching your relationships disintegrate. The ghost of Linda hovered in every note Thompson sang or played...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: To Be The Very Best | 4/26/1985 | See Source »

Lynley Ogilvie broke Harvard's dry spell, beating the MIT goalie to the corner. But MIT gained an easy tally when the Crimson netminder, Johnson, illegally brought the ball back into the net with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 4/24/1985 | See Source »

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