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...Correct Side of the Slaughter-House, a Grim Reaper-like figure that mimics Lenin's official portraits. Gebauer, now 62, says he enjoys the freedoms of the post-communist Czech Republic, but notes that artistic recognition remains hard to come by. "Things are essentially the same," he says, "except I don't have to worry about who is eavesdropping on my conversations...
Despite the College’s relatively lax rules about relations between genders, we still have a parietal system, of sorts, at Harvard today. Co-ed rooming is the final frontier. Except in pockets of New Quincy and Leverett towers, co-ed rooming is a very serious no-no. After one boy/girl pair were caught living together in my House last year, they found themselves in a private meeting with the dean, threatened with expulsion. Harvard doesn’t simply forbid co-ed rooming; penalties are harsh for those who choose to live alternatively...
...heart, because in my blocking group there is one of me, and seven boys. Some mothers made jokes about how I would have to teach their sons to do laundry, but I smiled and took it all in stride. It was all pretty fun for a while, except for the fact that I was never really a part of the group—my nun’s single kept me cloistered up the hall or a flight down. All I wanted was a space I could share with my blockmates. But thank goodness Harvard’s archaic system...
...time, or maybe to break the competitive tension, they fall into the perennial Israeli custom of throwing out names and addresses to find a link. They find some: a barber, a cousin. I don’t take my eyes off the lines and the chief security attendant, except to watch the clock...
There were snacks and drinks, refreshments made possible by donations from previous recitals. The atmosphere was that of your run-of-the-mill dorm room except that Ferus tuned his violin to an A provided by D’Elia from one end of the keyboard, while on the other end, Tobey echoed the digital tones coming from a cell phone in the room as someone tested out various melodic rings...