Word: tells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before you dismiss my classmate as a disgruntled cynic, let me tell you that well-liked, upbeat person has spent the past four years in the company of a very happy group of friends-and let me remind you that no true cynic would volunteer for the Senior Gift. Yet what my classmate said was striking in its accuracy, and it made all of us pause to wonder. What, really, will be the legacy of the Class...
...Board, and this weekend you have to play the part of a student accused of making prank calls to Menu Man. In the days leading up to the event, every second of your time is filled with mock depositions and practiced forced confessions of your heinous model crimes. You tell yourself that you have only sequestered yourself for legal purposes for the next few days, and that on Sunday you will be back to your normal self. But on Sunday, you have some versions of the Russian Pastoral to prepare for Slavic 158, "Some Versions of the Russian Pastoral...
...employers, will care whether you wrote a thesis, concentrated in Social Studies, participated in at least two extracurricular activities, or served as chair of the Harvard Model Symbionese Liberation Army. The big secret is that almost nobody cares. When asked about the choices they've made, most seniors will tell you that if they could start over, they would change very little. But the only thing many seem to regret is that they were so often...
...think you see my point. But then we arrive at Naomi Campbell's horoscope column. She opens with an honestly suspenseful, "I have to tell you the truth--ever since the legendary astrologer Patric Walker died I..." and we're prepared for something fantastic and mystical, like "I can't walk under a ladder without a black cat falling into my Prada purse" or "I threw a Manolo Blahnik mule at a mirror and haven't been able to find comfortable shoes for seven years." But instead she finishes with "I don't look at my horoscope as much...
...reality for the all-grown up Sassy gang? Are we to interpret it as the next logical step? Sassy made the world seem, to me, like a very small place--like a neighborhood filled with sisters who could give you a few pointers along the way and tell you if you had toilet paper stuck to the bottom of your shoe. Looking at the world through the magazine's rose-tinted cat-eye glasses convinced me to hang in there, that new ideas and a hip new world were around every bend. Maybe I was just projecting my erstwhile wish...