Word: pandemonium
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Five months after its ribbon-cutting, however, the Lamont Library Café has settled—after a few decor and menu changes—into a comfortable place along side the library’s traditional offerings of books and desks. Pandemonium has not erupted. Books have remained relatively grease-free. I would even wager that, in general, Lamont is a more productive and rewarding place than it ever was (at least for those students who have avoided boredatlamont.com...
...from talking to initiates while in Cambridge). They drove them to Connecticut...whereupon the crafty members promptly stole the kids’ keys and drove away. Harvard’s newest reality TV star is overwhelmed by the demands of fame—and broke up with his girlfriend. Pandemonium broke out in Hilles when all HUID swipers were mysteriously deactivated last weekend. Quadlings couldn’t get in the building, reading room, up the elevator, or down again without a propped open door. Was “get thee to Allston already” the secret message? After...
...Hours later, Shah was able to account for all his colleagues but one. Then the search of local hospitals began. Finally, just before dawn, he and his friends found the man they were looking for amid the pandemonium at the Sion Hospital morgue. Shah had to identify the body. "It was horrible," he says. "I can't describe it." Then the widow had to be called, and a funeral arranged. If Shah knew the steps, it's because he had seen it all before. He lost five colleagues in 1993, when terrorists blew up the Bombay stock exchange...
...indoors, imprisoned by fear. Nosh's photographs document the daily struggle to block out the violence. Sometimes the carnage seemed a world away; at other times it was all too close. After a roadside bomb went off near the house, family members got a ringside view of smoke and pandemonium from their window...
...depressingly comical Lamont Dessert Riot of 2005, man-made blunders have shown time after time that chaos ensues once lines fail to make their heralded appearance. If it is part of being civilized to form lines, then it certainly speaks to our innate, visceral tendencies when affairs become pandemonium in their want. At Harvard as much as anywhere else, lines infiltrate our existence. Some of us snort them, some dance in them, others memorize them, some draw them, many form them, and a few people don’t stand in them based on principle. But is this...