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...know who they are--in fact, you probably make jokes about them. They wear grey sweats all the time, they consume obscene amounts of food, and their distinctly metallic-looking hair is usually wet--in the winter, frozen. I am talking about swimmers, women swimmers in particular...
Silence smothers Vanderbilt Hall like a wet blanket. You can stand in the courtyard of the Medical School's only dormitory on a Saturday night, and the loudest sound you hear is your own breathing. Wait a minute! What's going on here? Isn't this a Saturday night? Isn't this a dormitory? And don't 250 students live here? So where is everybody? Where is the party, the beer, the music? At least there should be some music! Over in the common room some guy is playing the piano and upstairs some other guy is doing a Gregorian...
...insistence upon staying in the air, the Army is guarding the bronze. The two soldiers stand, staring each other into trances, polished bayonets and helmets gleaming in the midday sun. Their faces are covered with sweat. A civilian strides up to the soldiers from the crowd and pulls a wet washcloth from his pocket. He begins to dab the faces of the two men, methodically. They do not move, speak, blink, but they allow him to shift their chin straps slightly to wipe their lips. He asks them repeatedly if they are comfortable, and though they do not reply...
After the Crimson's 7-3 loss at Princeton earlier this season, the Harvard gridders trooped back to the visitors' locker room, dripping wet and miserable. The defeat set Harvard's Ivy record back to 2-2, and the injury-ridden squad had experienced the ultimate in frustration: dominating the Tigers all day but falling just short...
...Fritos are to grits. Frankie sang of Dede Dinah and sounded like the revenge of the adenoids. Fabian, legend has it, could sing on key only on alternate Thursdays, and his records were said to be creative sutures of dozens of different takes. Frankie will be remembered as the wet blanket at the Beach Party movies; Fabian, in a more enlightened time, may be lauded as an unsung pioneer of aleatory music...