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...protect me against the incoming tide of loneliness. I worried about hours spent alone and phones that rang infrequently, and I became convinced of my own inability to be social and loved as one, and then another, and then another, budding relationship would fail. I watched my roommates succumb to depression as their fundamental ideas of themselves were shattered by the social demands placed on them at Harvard. Although we all enjoyed our classes, the one lesson we avowedly did not want to learn was precisely that which my sophomore year fling tried to offer me, a lesson...
...which he won the Oscar) on the one hand, and by taut thrillers like Three Days of the Condor and The Firm on the other. It can be argued that the contradiction between those two modes is more apparent than real. High romance disorders the spirits of those who succumb to it; the implicit paranoia of the thriller disorders the very institutions of society. But I suspect the picture he most enjoyed doing was his intimate documentary about his friend, Frank Gehry, the architect, in which he was also an interviewer and an occasional camera operator. It had the scale...
...blue and yellow Powerade, adding some color to her steady diet of white meat.“I feel like there’s this dull, dazed look in my eyes,” Tan said. But already more than half done, the ladies couldn’t succumb yet.By the time the contestants reached Quincy, they were fading quickly, and a new rule was instituted: each is permitted to approach two strangers and ask them to take one bite out of her chickwich. Though both contestants hesitated to demand this favor of strangers, the thought of less chickwich ultimately...
...concert stage. But what music video would be satisfactory without a clip of the band doing what they do best? Architecture in Helsinki has taken care of this, too, with a darned scene of the band rocking out—cross-stitch style. This budding band obviously refuses to succumb to overused music video motifs, but instead prefers to grow a fan base attracted to the more imaginative and unorthodox. —Noël D. Barlow
...Guns on campus, however, bring that very danger into the midst of a student’s living environment. In the aftermath of great terror like the Virginia Tech massacre, not only is heightened fear expected, but so too is the potential for hatred and vigilante retribution. Rather than succumb to such emotions, we can instead respect the memory of the dead by concentrating on healing...