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door, I could hear pounding music,”
she observes. “White Christmas lights,
currently turned on, were taped high
up along all the walls, and on the north
wall they’d hung an enormous orange
and green tapestry.… I felt overstimulated
and vaguely irritated. The room I
shared with [my roommate] seemed so
quiet and plain, our lives seemed so
quiet and plain. Had Aspeth been born
cool, I wondered, or had someone
taught her, like an older sister or a
cousin?”
Jock cultures sense the low-reactive
physiology of cool, too. For the early
U.S. astronauts, having a low heart
rate, which is associated with low reactivity,
was a status symbol. Lieutenant
Colonel John Glenn, who became
the first American to orbit the Earth
and would later run for president, was
admired by his comrades for his
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