Word: stevenses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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STEVENS STARED at his typewriter; nothing happened. This was fairly unusual, and even stranger since the last time he had been at a typewriter, he had written his entire thesis--92 pages--in 72 hours.
The fall term in Cambridge had gone by quickly. It was some sort of indicator that Stevens found it more and more difficult to awaken each day in time for lunch. There was not a lot to get him out of bed. By the time undergraduates reach senior year, they...
He got a solid 30 pages done the first evening. Setting a schedule, Stevens cranked out one page every 15 minutes; four per hour; and managed 30 in seven hours with one break for a Schweppes and a walk out into the fog.
Four years at Harvard had taught him to do this extremely well. Someone once observed to Stevens that college was just an exercise in learning to pass off form as content. This observation had proven correct. Its proof came sophomore year in a tutorial with a senior professor (Steven's...
During sophomore year, Stevens had begun to acquire the habits that were, ultimately, the source of his dissolution. The phrase "identity crisis" was invented to describe the impact of sophomore year on Harvard-Radcliffe students, who are suddenly exposed to all the possibilities for their life at college. Their choices...