Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Downstairs, on the slime coated floor of the basement, one could find what was known to the administration...as a horror show. Mike Lempress had chugged his tenth straight beer and had some notion of breaking the all-time Dartmouth record of thirty-three. He failed, but not from want of trying...
Buddy Teevens, the starting Dartmouth quarterback, had convinced a freshman to place a beer cup on his head, the idea being that Buddy would try and knock the plastic cup off by throwing a beer keg at it. It turned out that Buddy was better at throwing footballs than kegs--much better. Buddy missed and the poor freshman spent the rest of the night in the clinic, a not-uncommon consequence of the sport popularly known as William Tell...
...smallish fellow, by the name of Charlie, stole the show when he used his forehead to cruch an unopened can of beer. He stood the can on its end and smashed his head squarely on its top. As the metal sides of the container burst, beer flew all over the room. Life in the fraternity basement, despite its lack of class, had a certain primitive charm. I decided I would probably join the house in the spring; most of the people there knew how to have a good time...
...because of the ascendance of the Ben Harts of the world should take note: the young conservatives are cocky, and it's going to bring them down. The same fingerpaint-level thinking that could allow Ben Hart to see primitive charm in a senior beaning a freshman with a beer keg reaches its apotheosis in Hart's English thesis...
...Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf (the savage, devouring deficit). But the American public was not in the mood and buried him under a landslide. It was perfectly fitting that the roadside scene was turned into a television commercial--calling up patriotic spirits in the process of selling some beer. The new American mood was, if anything, eminently commercial. Whether one described it as enlightened self-interest or shrewd crassness, the old American talent for making a buck was alive and well. And after a hard passage through the deepest recession since the '30s, Americans were not cavalier about...