Word: beers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drawn near-capacity crowds to Fenway throughout the 1975 season, but never such an elegant one as this. During the tense pennant drive, faithful, supportive crowds had come to cheer, fans who cared but didn't take themselves too seriously, good-natured, relaxed rooters. Beer-drinking bleacher sitters; dope-smoking ex-Mets fans; Cub Scout packs from Nashua, New Hampshire; families up from Providence in overloaded Country Squires. A fair mixture of ages and ethnicities had come to Fenway during the summer...
...Powers parish of the '60s and '70s has become a beleaguered sanctuary, attacked on one side by the new breed from the seminary. Carrying guitars, speaking at sensitivity sessions, Powers' young priests yearn to say Mass with a beer mug or a coffee cup. They march to a canting faith that "religion (though not perhaps as we know it) is the coming thing," that "the clergy (though not perhaps as we know them) are the coming men." As if the counterculture crusaders were not cross enough for the old guard to bear, ignoramuses and half believers...
...Stout, S.J.-for "still jaunty." So is Wolfe, who this time even goes to jail and gets his license suspended rather than tell the police anything about his own highly personal family affair. When the master detective has finally cracked the case, he settles back to "read books, drink beer, discuss food...logomachize with Archie." He asks a listener, "Shall I iterate and reiterate?" By all means, Mr. Stout. By all means...
...extracted under the threat of a strike or job action, to improve patient care or shorten the 100-hour weeks that house physicians sometimes work. "Goodwill arrangements and personal promises are swell," says P.N.H.A. Executive Director Steve Diamond, "but they have about the same value as a no-return beer bottle. Written contracts have proved to be the only way we can guarantee compliance by all those nice deans and administrators out there...
...this animosity on the part of the players results from the conflicting images of the two schools. To a Dartmouthian, Harvard is the academic "brain" school of the Ivy League, while to a Harvardian, Dartmouth is a jock-oriented, beer-drinking type place...