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...over the anniversary-closing Stadium Celebration and sign the name of Class of 1754 member John Hancock in fireworks-illuminated letters big enough for Prince Charles to see without his spectacles. After, some will malign the excesses of Harvard's frothy sesquitercentenary, taking potshots at the fireworks and the mylar balloons that spanned the Charles last night...
...fireworks and mylar become dangerous when they are smoke and mirrors obscuring the uncomfortable truth that the present cannot bear close scrutiny. The 350th celebration generates nostalgia for a Harvard past that never was and funds for a Harvard that is not what it should...
...Here is a succession of odd dreams, bigger than life: a red fingernail the size of a mudguard, a slough of squirming orange spaghetti, a girl whose perfect, impersonal beauty has to advertise something other than herself, the black void of outer space, a paper clip, crinkled silver Mylar and bristling sheaves of fiber-optic cables and the Ford in your future...
...minute later I crossed the line with the overhead clock reading 3:11:00. Someone put a medal over my head while someone else wrapped a mylar blanket around me. It was over. I had finished...
Sargent has a longtime interest in beautifying the Quad area. He once hung a mobile made of mylar, wrapping paper and yarn from a telephone pole near the Quad on Garden Street...