Word: vag
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current sentiment had begun when Vag heard the band play "Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind" at the Kirkland House party. He pictured himself in an insular jungle, and it almost seemed that that were real and Harvard the daydream. But he was glad that he was too busy looking forward to the approaching service to let nostalgia get the better...
...Vag had learned a lot in three and a half years. He had gotten a general inkling of what the score is, he had learned to see through big people and little people, he had absorbed some hazy ideas about the Intellectual and Social History of Western Civilization and had for better or worse grown up and set. And all the while the learned old ivy and the ageless wrought-iron gates had gotten more important than the skeptical Vagabond had ever thought they would. He appreciated the feelings of the man who wrote, "The saddest tale we have...
...Vag had no regrets; he would like to have had the four, rapid undergraduate years still ahead of him, but the military adventure attracted him also. The mere change and passing away saddened him in its own right, when he thought of it, but clearing out by midyears left him little time for speculation, and rush favored enthusiasm. It is easier to part with the past when one is intensely interested in the present, he decided...
Life seemed peculiarly precious and beautiful in moments like these, when transitions proved that it was finite, and Vag passed into that mixture of happiness and sadness which can be expressed only by music, and which literature had best omit...
...didn't help. He was unhappy, and he didn't recover all night. He couldn't help it--this game meant a lot to him. But to think of what should have been the best week-end ever being spoiled just because of a football score was, well, ridiculous. Vag didn't do things like that. It wasn't natural. But he could still see himself sitting with Ann at Cafe Society just like always, and worrying about an insignificant football game. Vag kicked off his white shoes and dressed for conditioning...