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Aside from the abstract merits of sports, I believe that there is nothing frivolous about students exhibiting enthusiastic support for their teams. Although it seems Kurzman would prefer that students continue to wallow in the self-absorbed reserve that permeates this campus, enthusiasm for athletics provides students with a needed release from the tensions of Harvard life. Damn his notion that such enthusiasm is "frivolous;" we're college students and we'll never have the opportunity to be frivolous again! If Kurzman believes there is no place for frivolity in the life of a serious intellectual then he has obviously...
THERE'S a chic new drug on college campuses. Its prescription name is MDA, but it's more commonly known as XTC (Ecstasy). It is a mixture of a hallucinogen and an amphetamine, and for about $15 you can wallow in its benefits for five or six hours...
...head up to Georgetown, then keep on going, down to the Potomac and Fletcher's Boathouse. Rent a canoe, and paddle out with your lunch and The Post to one of the Three Sisters' Islands. From there, you might wallow in your tranquility by watching the traffic snarl on Key Bridge a quarter of a mile away--too far to be heard or smelt, but close enough to enjoy...
...crux of the anti-divestiture argument is that the dynamism of capitalism, steered by conscientious American firms, will naturally erode apartheid. In the age of supply-side economics. Capitalism-equals-freedom-equals equality is an easy equation to wallow...
...than we think we want to know. Although Quentin, the play's protagonist, is a lawyer, and Maggie, his second wife, is a pop singer, the veils quickly fall. Fiction is revealed as self-pitying psychodrama, and Miller's descent into himself risks being taken as a wallow in metaphysical sleaze...