Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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Brown is through the looking glass: a semi-surreal world of topsy-turvy beauty and morbidity. No one is ever really prepared for the school and the city. Whether from New York, Los Angeles or even Providence, the new atmosphere is rarefied and strange. Here is a world of opposites and apposition, of one and two, of black and white, of red and gray. We are Brownmen and Pembrokersneither differ- ent, neither alikeneither what we were before nor what we will ever be again. Our senses are attacked, and our lives are changed. As through a glass darkly Brown blows our minds and then tries to reassemble them into some sort of unified cubist image. We are free, we are rebels, we are acquiescent. We are all Alices in a new wonderland. Here our ears see, our fingers taste, our eyes feel, our tongues smell and our noses hear. And they see, taste, feel, smell and hear things that they have never known before. We are the generation of Pot and LSD. Of pills that make you larger and pills that make you small. Of Caution: Cigarette Smoking May Be Hazardous To Your Health. Of neon lights and Lester movies. Of the playmate of the month and television and the ever-present omnip- otent eye.