Word: young
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ends and the Ryder Cup spectators make their way to the dining room charmed by the young men of Harvard, a buzz that might last another 18 holes. After the semi-formal crowd has gone, the Kroks return to the Upstairs Bar to kill some time before their next show. With the mutual fund managers gone, the room has returned to its rightful owners. An abandoned martini sits on the fireplace mantle, the olive within more closely resembling a preserved biology specimen than a cocktail. A fire blazes beneath the mantle; the air conditioner whirs in the corner. The charmed...
...players. Whether on campus or off campus, "Chicks dig the duds." The Kroks still display a framed photograph of a concert they sang at an all-girls Catholic school in South America, in which a few tuxedoed bodies stick out from a sea of hundreds of gushing and plaid young Catholic ladies. After each gig, the Kroks invariably make their way to the audience and lap up a few compliments, smiling broadly to middle-aged ladies who praise "the all-male sound." Interestingly, the fact that the Kroks is a boys' club isn't the only obstacle between them...
...student organization at Harvard. Still, the Kroks are, in the end, a singing group. Cufflinks and secret titles for various members with anti-climactic explanations, make for a certain mystique, but in the end, the love of singing and performing is each what bands together the dozen young Harvard men who croon as Harvard's resident lounge lizards. Something there is in human beings that loves to sing. Insofar as it's a way to cut loose, to release the energies of the imagination, it's a force for good. To the extent, however, that it's a question...
...means never having to say you're sorry.") But looking out over the crowd of undoubtedly cynical management consultants and investment bankers, all of whom have raked in piles of money and accumulated trophy cars, do these boys see why the crowds are smiling? It is because they are young and fresh, as yet unexposed to the daily grind that being a tough sonofabitch requires. The faces of the audience are wrinkled and droopy, hardened by years of not being the last-finishing nice guy, and these charming young men are naive, even as they sing of "sadomasochism...
...Bermuda, which they do every spring break. They will learn how to make audiences laugh and how to raise hairs on spines. But in all likelihood, they won't really learn what it is they have done, what they have become, until years later, when they are no longer young, charming, and naive. The mantle will long have been passed to new generations of Harvard men. It is the Harvard story, for though undergraduates in Cambridge work hard singing, writing, schmoozing or whatever else they do, the end game is almost never known, despite all that productivity...