Word: beers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Liquor store merchants benefit as much as anyone else from the week's festivities. "It's a fairly hectic week with lots of parties," said Clifton M. Thuma '78, manager of Harvard Provision Company. Seniors begin "primarily with beer, vodka, ice, wine-coolers, and soda," said Thuma. "When Commencement week brings mom and dad in town, it's scotch, bourbon, and very good cognacs...
...freshmen the class set off all the fire alarms in the Yard for fun; then they orchestrated a sit-in to protest the inedible dining hall fare and disrupt the traffic in the Square. The all-consuming desires were for sport, study, and alcohol. "My main concern was beer," recalls Barthelmes...
Cuomo is impulsive. He bristles easily. He boils over. He blurts things out. During the 1985 debate over the New York seat-belt law, he derided the bill's opponents as "NRA hunters who drink beer, don't vote and lie to their wives about where they were all weekend." He is almost too quick, too facile, for his own good. Last year when he got into what reporters called an argument but he preferred to term a Socratic dialogue on the subject of organized crime, Cuomo said, "You're telling me that Mafia is an organization...
While many health-conscious adults have been forsaking liquor for Perrier, children have been hitting the bottle with alarming abandon. The National Council on Alcoholism says that some 100,000 ten- and eleven-year-olds get drunk at least once a week, usually on beer or wine, and 3.3 million teenagers have serious drinking problems...
...response the council is starting a $500,000 education campaign to discourage young people from drinking. Even third-graders are getting the message. Weekly Reader, the nation's leading school newspaper, tells the story this month of Robbie the Racoon, who disdainfully pours out a beer offered by his friend's big brother...