Word: aching
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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What are typically perceived to be qualities that announce Ach's individuality--his Fine Arts concentration, his interest in classical and jazz music, his love of plants, his internship last summer at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts--are simply a departure from the stereotype. The fact that most Harvard students are surprised to discover that Acheson has these interests is evidence that the dumb-football-player attitude persists...
...purely athletic level, Ach has often wished that he could have experienced a big-time program, where football players are expected to think only of football. Ultimately, though, he concludes that he might have encountered an unbearable intellectual void playing "a Midwest brand" of the game...
...What makes the athletes here so special is that they can devote so much of themselves to both athletics and academics," Ach says, adding, "The good thing about this place is that you meet unique people...
...these days, as the probable end of his 14-year football career approaches, Ach has a lot to think about...
...Football is total emotional involvement, total release, total release of aggression," Ach continues. "I really don't know yet what the hell it's going to be like when I have to stop playing...