Word: ales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sixteen cases of ale and forty of beer went on tap around the Houses as the impassioned battle for the joys of 3.2 beer came to an end. Around the turn of the year Harvard's first liquor license in 100 years made it legal to serve to over-21's at the dining tables. Within tea months, however, the administration announced that apparently the big thirst was only temporary: consumption was falling off and the College was losing money by supplying the few remaining quaffers. The liquor permit would be permitted to expire the following January, which...
...scientism. He is (and I concede the moderate originality of his symbol) for dryads, unifying "earthiness and airiness, mortality and sky, in concrete touchable simplicity." He is for "a natural magic, the marriage of earth and sky." He is, no doubt, also for motherhood, fatherhood, and nut-brown ale...
...Soviet Journalists, and the delegation's pin-money treasurer, refused to convert his $3,000 expense-money draft into traveler's checks, demanded cash (he got it). Teetotaler Erofeev also had transcontinental trouble ordering the soft drink recommended by Teetotaler Salisbury; Erofeev kept asking for ginger ale, but his hosts, misinterpreting his basic English, kept bringing him gin rickeys and gin-and-tonic. "The Russians were charmed by Disneyland," said Salisbury "and they left San Francisco starry-eyed. On the bus back to the hotel, one of them hummed happily a song of his own composition...
...ancient (and perhaps apocryphal) College rule once entitled students taking final or midyear examinations to receive a mug of ale at the end of the first hour. This sympathetic gesture seems rather anomalous for the strait-laced old Puritans who supposedly made it. Perhaps even they, despite their conviction that "all work and no play sends Jack to Heaven," had some unconscious qualms about the examination system...
...final edged note. Punch presents useful new phrases tailored to newly poor U.S. tourists. Recommends Punch: In stead of saying. "Will you folk never learn to make a chilled martini?", say "I am acquiring a taste for mild ale." For "Yeah, we did Scotland last week-end," substitute "I think we can afford the fare to Banbury." For "Keep the change, kid." try "Thank...