Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shared concerns of community. This belief is not a late-blooming flower of incipient dotage. As a fledgling professor during the 1960s, Giamatti bore the plumage of the counterculture. His clothes were rumpled, his hair longish; he sported a goatee and an unassuming, downscale, fist-around-a- can-of-beer manner. Students were attracted by this charisma. They enrolled in his courses and came out of them equally entranced by their teacher, but for radically different reasons. Bart expected them actually to read their assignments. He believed in grades, tough grades; he argued that being a civilized human being...
...more intellectually-minded, with a generous dollop of cynical elitism thrown in, counter that the media is bound by a higher responsibility. Don't cater to the whims of the beer-swilling couch potatoes, they say. Let's ignore those natty Nielsen viewership surveys and give the public some healthy programming...
...bars, most of them know upperclassmen who can buy alcohol. College officials fear that when students drink in their own rooms, out of the public eye, they are more likely to lose control. The problem is exacerbated by the fact that students find hard liquor easier to conceal than beer, but have had little previous experience with...
...pledge. While some fraternities are still centers of Animal House-style saturnalias, many others have been forced by the new laws to clean up their activities. A number have instituted "dry rush" at parties, eliminating the heavy alcohol factor. Even the theme parties that once had such titles as "Beer with the Bros" have changed. Now fraternities sponsor barbecues, volleyball tournaments and even "Tradition Nights," at which alumni speak to the chapter about career opportunities...
...perhaps more like sport. "The Bible says, 'Ask and you shall receive,' " notes Brown, 35, and he has taken the injunction to heart, especially when fortified with a few shots of cheap vodka and beer ("When I'm sober, I have my pride"). He cannily tailors his pitch to his victims. "I can tell right off if they'll give me money," he says. "If they look like they might halfway give me something, then I run a sympathy line on them. If they look like they won't, then I give them a worse sympathy line...