Word: thrill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intrepid investigative journalist and wistful senior, I've been going to a lot of senior bars lately trying to find the source of their dubious appeal. After all, the illicit thrill of drinking when you are underage is gone if you're a senior. Three-fourths of the partygoers are not seniors, the people you presumably came to see. Conversation is impossible, and the press toward the keg of lame beer resembles a British soccer match...
Playing with a former Olympian (MacDonald) and the Crimson's top goal-scorer (Young) may be a thrill for Hartje, but living with them--the three are Kirkland House roommates--has a drawback...
...about a person and about his times. Bernstein provides both, in abundance. Juxtaposing excerpts from declassified FBI files with tales of a childhood thrown into turmoil by the early postwar Red scares, he has created a new genre -- what might be called the investigative memoir. It combines the journalistic thrill of Watergate with the emotional punch of that most basic of literary themes, a boy's search to understand his father...
...Hemenway Gymnasium smells of hard 'work, determination and the thrill of victory. Three sweet victories. One really sweet victory over Yale...
...have sort of a loyal following, which includes family and friends," Harvard Tri-Captain Julia Trotman said. "It would be a thrill to play in front of 5000 fans like the guys. We wonder what it would be like. But we understand it's not quite as exciting. But our fans are good, solid fans...