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...psychological theory, however, failed for the simple reason that now all students equate those blue books with exams, and exams with frustration, anxiety and fear. Those ugly, lined, short pages loosely pressed together with weak staples in that putrid blue color remind us all of what we want to forget--exams...

Author: By Juliette N. Kayyem, | Title: Hayfever in Capitalism's Garden of Eden | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...sudden, you see a universe of green around you. The field is carpeted by some of the most verdant grass you've ever seen. Even the walls and seats are painted in a green hue, which anywhere else would be called putrid...

Author: By Joseph R. Palmore, | Title: Red Sox Rites and Rituals | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...constant opening of soda cans or the incessant munching and crunching of Doritos that prove to be the most bothersome. It's not even so much the festering and lingering putrid odor of semi-microwaved food eating away at your brain, just at the moment you're deepest into studying for that final exam worth 75 percent of your grade...

Author: By Jean GAUVIN Jr., | Title: Lamont Terminator | 5/11/1988 | See Source »

IMAGINE THE scummiest dregs of politics and pop culture accelerating into a putrid whirlpool that covers the nation and world with junkies, trash t.v., and half-witted--but brutal--bureaucrats. The population is smothering under a technicolor cultural vomit of drugs, shoddy food, and mind-numbing music. And it's all financed with government money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRAIN LINT: | 3/11/1987 | See Source »

...this phenomenon is not unique to the Quad. Rather, it is a problem wherever there is grass. Or, more appropriately, wherever there is a thawing after three solid months of unchecked dog-walking sans pooper-scoopers. The Cambridge Common is another such site where snow that once covered this putrid odor has now melted. So is the walkway from Leverett towers to Mather and Dunster...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: What’s Matter and What Matters | 3/10/1987 | See Source »

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