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...lashed to the prow in the storm, blinking up into the lights. The beer cans began to fly again, raining in, just missing. He ended up in the corner standing confused, his big moment gone. "Show the fucking movie!" Soon after Curly was on the screen floundering in a tub while a fish flapped in his lap. Eighty minds clicked--half a dozen bodies stood up and hooted, shaking their fists in jeering excitement...
Given the basic Harvard philosophy of "every tub on its own bottom," it is not surprising that each House is responsible for its own security. Few steps are taken by the University itself to improve a particular House's security situation until the House, specifically the House master, makes a request. It is easy to see then why Claverly Hall, which has no master assigned to it, has been given second class security measures...
Inwagen said of the second letter, "One could no more reply to it than one could reply to a Hitler speech or a tub-thumping backwoods revivalist sermon...
...defense, it can only be said that his invective was impartial and bipartisan. He accused Harry Truman of putting on "one of the cheapest exhibitions of ham acting I have ever seen." He said that Lyndon Johnson was "drunk with power." The corpulent G.O.P. Senator Homer Capehart was a "tub of rancid ignorance...
...will be participating in a series of meetings starting this summer to discuss the merger renewal. "There's a wide range of possibilities," she says. "We could dissolve the Radcliffe board of trustees in exchange for places on the Corporation (now all male). Or we could make Radcliffe a tub within Harvard University. Or we could merge some areas and not others, or work together cooperatively. But I hope after a serious review that we should have the strength of character to dissolve ourselves if that's the best way or, of course, not to if that's best...