Word: boyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Petrus, who in the old days of apartheid would have been called boy even as a middle aged man and relegated to the ranks of simple farmhands, is the farms co-proprietor and a man of substance in the local black community. Lurie is unsure how to relate to Petrus: at first he seems determined to like him, the politically correct thing to do in the situation. But a shockingly violent incident involving Lucy changes everything. Suddenly Lurie is doubly disgracedfor his failure as a father to help his own daughter and for his abuse of the child-like student...
...Today, those supposedly authentic waiters sport goatees and multiple piercings. Also on the check-list for boy applicants: a tragic and distraught look...
...Pete A. Steciuk '03 has been a Boy Scout for 12 years. The wimpy New England sensibilities have not stifled his inner woodsman. In order to escape the wilds of his roommates' mess, he constructs tents MacGyver-style with delicate everyday linens. A cave shelter over his own bed remains standing. A well-prepared Boy Scout, he admits that he has a "stash of Pringles, fruit bars and raisins buried under the tent...
...stand on the street and look through the ground floor windows of Quincy, you can see a wild thing and a little boy dancing to the moon. Last year, Dan B. Baer '00 sketched the first chalk lines of this "Where The Wild Things Are" Mural because "when we moved in to the suite, the word 'DEATH' was scrawled across the wall in gray paint." He painted in his chalk lines to cover the entire wall of Quincy B-11 with Max and a monster arching their backs to the sky. The book was Baer's childhood favorite...
...hear music and people inside the Adams G suite, and though I had secured an actual invitation to this event while chatting at the Signet, we are forced to knock repeatedly before the door is unlocked for us. Once inside, I instantly pounce on Max Hirsch, the birthday boy, who, though the party seems to be at a subdued level, is anticipating much "busting of asses" on the dance floor. His friend agrees, "The night is but a fetus; I am predicting that later on people will be busting multiple asses...