Word: ashed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Upstairs was a zoo. Bob Ash was sitting in the john puking his guts out. It seems that one of the girls had stood him up for what would have been his first real "date" since coming to the Cliffe. Three girls and two guys were in his room finishing off the remains of a quart of Cutty Sark in between halves of a hallway hockey game...
...REUNIONITES stroll through the Coop looking for souvenirs of college days, they will find the usual assortment of Harvard mugs, Harvard scarves. Harvard ties, ash trays, key rings, chairs, lamps, skivvies, garters, diapers, playing cards, glasses, pencils, cigarette lighters, and cocktail shakers. This year, there is also a large assortment of new Harvard books-books by undergraduates and alumn that purport to tell something about the Harvard and American Youth of today...
Although the Board of Directors' conference table is adorned with two large ash trays full of Coop-bound bricks from the recent riots, Zavelle takes issue with those who would trash the Coop in social protest...
...volcano erupted and covered Pompeii with ash. Eighteen hundred years later, archaeologists found that the Pompeians' bodies, long since dust, had left molds of themselves in the impacted cinders. The scientists poured in liquid plaster, and when it set, the casts were lifted out and put in a local museum...
...with his passive sense of impending catastrophe and his culturally induced impotence in the face of Joe McCarthy and Curtis LeMay. (Q. What did you do in the Great War, Daddy? A. I sat down in an orderly manner, baby, ate some larks' tongues and waited for the ash.) The Pompeian mode produced only one noteworthy American variant that survives into the 1970s: George Segal, whose latest plastered figures currently populate the Sidney Janis Gallery with a ghostly white company...