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...earliest Harvardians seem to have been aroused only by food. The first Harvard insurrection, in 1766, was prompted by the serving of sour butter a thing distasteful to the gentlemanly and tasteful undergraduates. The Great Butter Rebellion, which lasted a month, was finally eulogized by one of the insurrectionists in a Biblical testament entitled "The Book of Harvard...
Irwin was not insulted; he was delighted to put up with the putdown. Unimpressible Jewish mothers-and surly children, complaining wives, urban sprawl and the 20th century-have been his bread and butter ever since he changed his name to Alan King and became, successively, a big-time comic, author, actor, producer and all-round impresario...
...childhood, "because they don't like to chew meat or any food that takes time to eat-they're in too much of a rush." When Dr. Fisher advises teen-agers to cut down on foods rich in both fats and sweets-fried foods, ice cream, peanut butter, whole-milk cheeses (as distinct from cottage cheese), nuts and pastries, many of them set up an anguished wail: "Why, that's everything I live on." Dr. Fisher has another, admittedly impractical, prescription for his pimply patients: relax. Their acne, he notes, almost always flares up at such times...
...Wester, a junior from North House, kept East from making a clean sweep by swimming the 20-yard butter-fly in 11 seconds flat, a new pool record. Halmed the other record when senior Jane Mansfield clocked a 20.4-second time for the 40-yard breaststroke...
...night, while listening to a radio announcer spieling a tasteless commercial, Gagman Roger Price exploded. "I can't stand it any longer," he shouted at the obnoxious squawk. Then he began to think about all the other things he couldn't stand any longer: solidly frozen butter pats, astrology, karate, clergymen who discourse learnedly on sex. But what was the point in ranting and raving when nobody else was listening? "That's when I decided to complain out loud in public," recalls Price. "The thing every man wants...