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Certain students at Harvard, for the most part residents of one of the nation's largest cities and tending to have a rather bloated sense of the importance of their home metropolis, very often succumb to the myth of The Big City. Charmed but piqued by the limited offering of activities and cultural events in the greater Boston area, this student, while on his way to Lamont to renew The History of Art for the fifth time that day, lapses into reveries of world-premier movies, a new production of La Traviata, and cocktail parties at which members of both...
...game then entered the stage that all basketball games, once the outcome has been determined, succumb to. Otherwise referred to as garbage time, this stage involves the clearing of the benches, the abandonment of team basketball, and the flagrant disregard for defense...
Over oceans, landmasses and treetops the Moon now takes her dander through the darkness, to lenses a ruined world lying in its own rubbish, but still to the naked eye the Icon of all mothers, for never shall second thoughts succumb our first-hand feelings, our only redeeming charm, our childish drive to wonder: spaced about the firmament, planets and constellations still officiously declare the glory of God, though known to be uninfluential...
...nervous, though tentative worry began to build as Ford flew on. It was that the President, just like Nixon, was finding international junketeering far more pleasurable than the grind in the Oval Office. Perhaps he was beginning to succumb to the illusion that he could outrace domestic difficulties and bring home enough of the foreign huzzahsto dispel the leadership malaise...
...from it; we can almost say that we have profited from it. Right now we look back at it with astonishment: How did we ever allow it to happen? In a few years we will look back on it with a certain pride because we did not in fact succumb to what happened, or allow ourselves to be overwhelmed or subverted by it. On the contrary, before the situation got hopelessly out of hand, we rallied our resources, rejected it and reversed...