Word: camels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cussedness is legendary. It will kick its master when it is annoyed, and spit cud at curious bystanders. Despite its vile temper, the camel is prized for its ability to withstand searing desert temperatures with a bagful of survival tricks. Among them are its unusual abilities to retain water in the bloodstream (with the help of high concentrations of a special kind of albumin), sweat so little that its skin almost always feels dry, and keep out heat with a coat of thick...
Over the last few months, I have become quite disillusioned with the attitude of the College's Administration toward the Committee on Housed and Undergraduate Life (CHUL). The straw that broke the camel's back is the way the Administration dealth with the recent kiosk/bulletin board legislation. At the regularly schedulaed CHUL meeting of May 5, 1980, a motion was made to assess a $25 fine for postering anywhere except on official University bulletin boards. The only mention of new bulletin boards was: "The University plans to provide bulletin boards in the Yard where posters may be placed...
...camel shit on the wall...
After the authorities nab Bernard Mickey and throw him in jail, Leigh-Cheri sits in her room for half a year and discovers the meaning of life by staring at a pack of Camel cigarettes. She promises to marry an Arab Sheik, provided he builds her a pyramid. The Woodpecker eventually gets out of the clink, meets her in the pyramid and reiterates the dilemma of transitory love. The sheik bombs the pyramid. The princess and the frog go deaf and, maybe, learn to make love stay. They live happily ever after...
UUNFORTUNATELY, however, that is not "the end." Woven in among the tenous plot threads are various images and metaphors that Robbins feels compelled to pick apart in the last few pages of the book. Why all this talk about pyramids and Camel packages and red-headed people and princesses and the moon? The reason, explains Robbins, is that all of these sundry things share one characteristic: they are means of connecting ourselves with "the mystery" that makes love important to the human race. The author extends his argument by noting that although mystery likes movement, we only perceive it when...