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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this time of year, however, many students are more interested in grabbing a quick beer before finals than arguing about campus politics. Last weekend, at a corner table in Jonathan Edwards dining hall, Suzanne Ingram checked over a food list for the "existentialist" party she was planning in honor of the conclusion of spring classes. At the next table over, a representative of the residential college was attempting to sell tickets to the Moth Ball, a recently established J.E. rite in which students dance away their academic blues. Three blocks away, Andee Hochman, editor of the Yale Daily News, walked...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: Trying Harder in New Haven | 5/6/1983 | See Source »

...prodigal powers of comic invention. There are countless passages of Rabelaisian discourse. One entire chapter is devoted to a detailed analysis of Russia's greatest calling--hiccups. Another chapter is a bartender's manual for some of the most bizarre drinks ever conceived, including an unorthodox mixture of beer, two kinds of shampoo (one anti-dandruff), and insect repellant. The humor ranges from the highly subtle to the truly gross, most of it reasonably well-served by J.R. Dorrell's colloquial translation...

Author: By Jean-christophe Castelli, | Title: Hollow Spirits | 5/5/1983 | See Source »

...America, a line of coke is as easy to obtain as a bottle of beer. Coke users will cut their habit only when they realize that cocaine is ruining their lives and not before that. All the millions of dollars spent on drug enforcement would be better spent on drug rehabilitation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 2, 1983 | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

Still, no animal species is likely to prove more intelligent than Homo sapiens. However, as Psychologist Colin Beer of Rutgers University puts it, "Human intelligence has made us dominant, but has also brought us great suffering. The balance sheet of the costs and benefits of intelligence has yet to be tallied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Birds May Do It, Bees May Do It | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...Name look around see an alien country and other 19 year olds who should be back in the Sheets going to school driving cars drinking beer. They give you a gun--"Final goods kill them" This won't what was thought it would be like. These gooks want to kill you more than you went to kill them...

Author: By Michael J. Abeamowitz, | Title: That Dirty Little War | 4/16/1983 | See Source »

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