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Word: clubbings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should choose who meets with the University to discuss ways to ensure harmony between HUCTW and Harvard is counterintuitive: the worker who opposes the union shouldn't care, and the union doesn't need advice on this matter from those who are not sympathetic to its very existence. Every club, from the Boy Scouts to the Democratic Party, has a rule for making internal decisions: each member, one vote. To stray from that rule would be organizational suicide...

Author: By Robert J. Weiner, | Title: Membership Has Its Privileges | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

Smoking anything without inhaling. Cooking with pine nuts. Drinking espresso, even though it tastes awful. Drinking San Pelligrino water instead of Perrier, or Perrier instead of club soda. Joining an unworthy cause. Talking about Decon-structionism or unloading your artistic/thesis anxiety on any available listener. Calling yourself an artist. Going to Harvard...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: Nose Rings and Narcissism | 12/12/1988 | See Source »

...postcard design possibilities are innumerable; "Mem Hotel, an Intimate Lodging in the Tradition of the Core Curriculum" and "Wish You Were Here in Our Gothic Paradise" come immediately to mind. Within a few years, maybe it could get put on the Club Med circuit...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: '368 Bedrooms, Good Location' | 12/8/1988 | See Source »

...order to pacify the expropriated club members and alumni, however, female faculty could be asked to use the service entrances to the clubs, and would be restricted from using the pool rooms. But this shouldn't present too big a problem; after all, how many tenured women are there anyway...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: '368 Bedrooms, Good Location' | 12/8/1988 | See Source »

Arcadia was the humanist's Club Med. In it, nothing happens. Shepherds and nymphs, young soldiers and scholars, madonnas, saints and animals loll about in a state of pure being, with no future tense. Arcadia has ruins, sometimes quite grand ones -- as in Claude Lorrain's classical revisions of the pastoral landscape, here represented by the Landscape with Nymph and Satyr Dancing, 1641 -- but Roman architecture does not include a stern call to Roman virtue and gravity. Arcadia's weather is always equable, and its views intimate and mellow. Above all, its location is not too far out of town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Club Med of the Humanists, from Giorgione to Matisse | 12/5/1988 | See Source »

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