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...never," the door reads. Fairbank's humorous but decidedly cynical meaning squeezed between the lines here is, as translated by Thomson, that while people may sometimes pass between his study and the outside world, his books can never be borrowed, but must remain within. There was also an uneasy trace of humor in his 1954 alumni report when he wrote...
Expungement, that dread punishment that entails erasing every trace of a student's presence at the College, is no longer a threat for Harvard undergraduates. The Faculty voted to rescind the regulation last fall after the general counsel's office advised them it was inconsistent with state laws regarding school records. Expungement as they say, was expunged...
Cash and Carry. Some athletes, fearful that IRS records could be used to revoke their eligibility, play a dangerous game of concealment from Government, as well as amateur, officials. As one former Olympian explains, "If it's all done in cash, who's going to trace it? I never used to deposit the money in a checking account. I always put it in safe-deposit boxes because of the IRS. I always paid cash for everything." Another athlete admits that he did not file tax returns on his track earnings. Says he: "I felt the AAU would find...
...Neither is as real as the comfortable stasis the characters inhabit during most of the film. The dissolution at the close is supposed to lead to new beginnings for the characters, as couples or as individuals. But, sadly, the abrupt shift in mood it entails leaves us with a trace of Abbie and Harry's old anomie...
...knows the bliss of the infinite, he senses the pain of renouncing everything, the dearest things he possesses in the world, and yet finiteness tastes to him just as good as to one who never knew anything higher, for his continuance in the finite did not bear a trace of the cowed and fearful spirit produced by the process of training; and yet he has the sense of security in enjoying it, as though the finite life were the surest thing of all. And yet, and yet the whole early form he exhibits is a new creation by virtue...