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Later that evening you learn why Harvard emphasizes extracurricular activities, and why Yale men seem, comparatively speaking, so tense. At a Davenport College party, usually one of the wildest during The Weekend, you meet not one Yale woman, but a host of friendly Albertus Magnus types. Beth, a somewhat typical Albertus student, takes you into a dark corner and, with little prodding, gives you the rundown you have been seeking all day. "The best place to eat, not fancy, but fun, is Gentrees, a little var and restaurant across from Davenport," she says. "And the best place to drink, though...
...Yale guys like to play dumb, don't you." Beth says, a certain twinkle in her eye, awaiting the predictable response. But for you, a Harvard guest at Yale, there is the moral dilemna, based on the olde rivalry. Should you play along, and be a Yalie, just for one night, or will you be true to your school? Be-wop, shaboom...
...truth is I'm really not from Yale," you begin, and before your Cantab residency may be fully explained, she is gone, for good. Which leaves you, in the throes of your drunken stupor, already beginning to forget Beth's favorite New Haven hangouts, with a moral: Before you leave Cambridge, you must either resolve to concede losing a weekend battle in The Rivalry or to find out for yourself what to do at Yale...
CRIMES OF THE HEART by Beth Henley...
...sexpot sister Meg (Mary Beth Hurt) knows all about men ("I've had too many") but astonishingly little about herself. She rushed off to Hollywood because Old Granddaddy fostered the delusion that she could be a singing star. She became a pill-popping swinger and had a mental breakdown. The scar tissue shows in hard-boiled mannerisms and a terror of displaying "weakness...