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...nightmare. First, you woke up after the 13th roommate they'd put into your Currier House triple rolled over on top of you. And since you were already awake, you figured you'd go down to the Coop to pick up the books for your science course...

Author: By Richard J. Meislin, | Title: No Books, No Beds, Long Walks | 9/29/1973 | See Source »

...little hazy now. I sort of woke up one day next to this sleeping naked guy. He had a scar on his right side like he had just had gall stones removed or something. Anyway, he finally woke up, and when he saw me, boy, was he surprised...

Author: By Hank Greenspan, | Title: Cidergate: After the Fall | 9/25/1973 | See Source »

After a party Friday night in Comstock, a very drunk Harvard junior and a very stoned Radcliffe freshman went back to his room and spent the night. The next morning he woke up very hung over, and she woke up possibly pregnant. Rather nonchalantly, but slightly nervously, she went to the Health Services and received the Morning After pill. For five days she took 50 grams of the artificial estrogen diethyl stilbestrol (DES) a day, was very nauseated, and felt ill the whole time. Yet, at the end of five days, she knew she wasn't pregnant. What she didn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GET RID OF THE MORNING AFTER | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

...dream was that my nose was active, wrinkling in disgust at the fetor of rotten grass and the ichor of freshly overturned earth. This time the enshrouded figure spoke to me in hollow tones: "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn." I woke up screaming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dream Lurker | 6/11/1973 | See Source »

...ourselves still speaking of him in the present tense. And when I'm reading a book, I find myself turning down the corner of a page, the way I always did when I wanted to talk to him about that passage. The worst time is early morning. Lyndon woke earlier and earlier in those last years-I really didn't like it much. But as early as 6:30 we would be up, having his tea and my coffee at a little table beside the window. It was such a pleasant time together, such a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Life Without the Presence | 5/21/1973 | See Source »

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