Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sophomore year had endings as well as beginnings. An idyllic love deteriorated for reasons Stevens would not even admit to himself. For the rest of his time, he stayed away from Cliffies; a decision constantly regretted but never reversed. One scar seemed enough.
Instead there was a round of parties and shows. Stevens had a certain talent in the theater, as a set-designer. He liked the people who worked on the shows; some of them had an admirable selflessness--especially the techies--rare in a world full of self-important nonentities. The...
For a while, Stevens's activity served as a painkiller against the harshness around him. No one noticed the changes in him except for a friend or two left over from another time, who remembered a lost innocence worth saving.
Stevens discovered scotch at the Casablanca. Always prone to comfort in any form, he began to favor fits of laughter with acquaintances and morose drunkenness with friends. Dope was worse; it seemed to cost more and made him slightly nauseous.
The four years had granted a stay of execution from the inevitable suicidal confrontation with non-academia. Stevens's taste for indulgence was now a habit. He was incapable of coping with the demands of an unrelenting world. His ideology had become one of comfort; and he settled all questions...