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Refrigerators and elevators in the new Houses are raising the bill, too. Conscientious students, reports indicate, have been speaking up the stairs to their rooms and keeping their beer in the bath...
Asleep or Awake. Japan was no wet diaper, but "a scented bath which gives you electric shocks at unexpected moments." Many of the shocks came from Zen Buddhism, which Koestler feels makes sense in Japan's rigidly conformist social structure. "Taken at face value and considered in itself," he writes, "Zen is at best an existentialist hoax, at worst a web of solemn absurdities. But within the frame work of Japanese society, this cult of the absurd, of ritual leg-pulls and nose-tweaks, made beautiful sense. It was, and to a limited extent still is, a form...
...standard trick: the "initiation ceremony," in which a rookie-and an occasional sportswriter-is seized by the entire squad of naked bellowing Canadiens as he saunters into the locker room. The victim can count himself lucky if he is merely stripped to the buff and given a snow bath...
...tourists seemed innocuous enough when they turned up at the Russian border on July 26. Mark I. Kaminsky, 28, of Edwardsburg, Mich, and Harvey Bennett. 26. of Bath. Me. had hired a Russian-made Volga sedan in Helsinki, and their papers stated that they planned a 30-day motor trip through Russia to brush up on their Russian. Kaminsky and Bennett had met in the Air Force in 1953; both took Russian in college. Kaminsky had landed a job as an instructor at Purdue this fall, and Bennett, fresh out of U.C.L.A., was still looking...
...their lodgings until 10 p.m. rather than 7 p.m.. provided college authorities are willing." But with their usual imperturbability, Oxonians scoffed at the changes. Undergraduates have long smoked in public anyway, and girls seemingly prefer the 7 p.m. blue law. Said one proper fresh-woman: "I take my bath at ten, and I should hate to be seen in curlers. I would rather be seen nude than in curlers." Last real progress at Oxford in the eyes of most undergraduettes: a 1930s decision that they need not move their beds into the hall while entertaining...