Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thozzze of you seated in rowzz two through 48 will be able to see the clock at the back of the room. The rest of you, start counting seconds when I say, Begin. The exam is three hourz long. Please suspend all bodily functionzz azz three izz only one bathroom...
...million mansion that Saudi Arabia's Sheik Mohammad al Fassi painted blue-green and refurbished in rococo kitsch. To appease the neighbors, Mohammad's father Sheik Shams Aldein al Fassi gave a housewarming for 1,000 or so and showed off the improvements: a bathroom decorated with pornographic posters, a basement discotheque, a circular master bed that revolves at the press of a button and stuffed life-size camels. "In my religion, you take care of your neighbors," said the Sheik, who showed his good faith by serving champagne, Maine lobsters, shish-kebab and 30 Ibs. of imported...
...plight. Some of it is sheer vaudevillian antics - Dorothea doing body-wrenching calisthenics in her negligee, the half-deaf Bodey fidding with her hearing aid and trying to camouflage it with an outlandish flower, or Miss Gluck (Barbara Tarbuck), on whom coffee acts as an emetic, rushing to the bathroom to throw up. But more of the comedy springs from Williams' absurdist juxtapositions and mocking putdowns...
During freshman year, the architecture of some dorms makes it hard, if not impossible, for students to meet each other, Karger says. "In a place like Matthews, where everybody lived off a hallway and shared a bathroom, you got to know each other right away. The only time we [freshmen in Wigglesworth] saw people in the next entryway was when our proctor scheduled activities, and that was about once a month," Karger adds...
...monastic isolation. Chapel at these Episcopal Church schools was required every day and twice on Sunday; supervision was so strict that at Groton, seventh-graders were given black marks for going out in the rain without rubber overshoes, and eleventh-graders had to ask permission to go to the bathroom during study hours. Then came the virulent student discontent of the late '60s. After some bitter rear-guard struggles, the schools emerged with female students (of the top schools, only Deerfield and Lawrenceville remain all male) and far more freedom: relaxed dress codes; fewer required chapels, meals and study...