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...this is sophistry too in a way; for the deep pleasure in the making and keeping of an enemy lies not in his redeeming social value but in the peculiar passion he lends to life. There is simply no force in nature like him, none that can so suck the oxygen from the air, so tighten the skin about the ears, so clench the fists, sweat the palms, so press the tongue against the mouth's roof or stretch the nerves Like piano wires. His concentration on you is total. He cares more about your welfare than...
Undergraduate opinion of these regulations seems to bear out the department's worst fears. "They suck," says one senior in the department. Other upperclassmen single out the requirements as reasons they chose to major in other concentrations, such as Literature or History and Literature...
...autobiography-of-sorts, A Certain World. The book is an alphabetical listing of subjects close to Auden's heart, and the psychological evidence is so blatant that one should expect an ambush. Edel plunges ahead. Under "Castration Complex," he finds a reference to "The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb," whose mother warns him that he will lose his favorite fingers if he does not stop his infantile habit. He does not, and in comes "the great, long, red-legged scissors-man" to carry out the sentence...
...winter and not quite spring. It is something in between, a few weeks transcending transition to become a season in itself. First comes a slow drip. Then a tentative trickle. Then the melt begins in earnest: a rush, a gurgle, a cascade. The earth squirts, muck and mire suck at boots, downhill becomes a torrent, uphill becomes a bog. Snowbanks dissolve, flowing over ground already saturated. The frost comes out of the earth, and a normally flat, hard roadbed melts into mud three feet and four feet deep...
Otherwise this frivolous topic risks getting nasty. Although masters don't like to talk about specific violations each suck incident exacerbates resentment among students in Houses abiding by the rules and thus not sponsoring the lucrative beer nights. Some Quincy students privately view first-year master David A. Aloian '49 as unreasonably strict because the House has had no dances where beer has been served. And in Kirkland House there are candidly expressed fears that the search for a replacement for departing Master Evon Z Vogt might produce a new master who will be more strict similar...