Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...viewing is usually around midnight, when people are going to sleep. "That's just the one time when everyone has to get naked, and when I'm sitting at my desk looking out the window. It's so much more interesting to see someone walk perfectly unashamed across their common room and check their e-mail in the nude than to check your own e-mail...
...kind of a wild one--the window looks out into their common room, so sometimes I'll see her doing some wild stuff. You know." Terence declines to get more specific about just what "wild" means...
While the "hook-up" is a common means of expression, it's not the only indefinable term out there. In a survey conducted to determine Harvard's sentiments on the issue, the connotations of "hook up" and "make out" were the least certain. Students disagreed on which implied a more intimate encounter. Jessie R. Elzinga '01 considers making out further along the road of "getting it on," and hooking up "not so sexual...more about a relationship than physical activity." Larissa T. Jester '99 adds that "in the old days, making out meant something different--it was much more scandalous...
...other restrictions, removes from visibility the markers of wealth and class distinction. Rich and poor look the same at the Hajj, all equal in their status as pilgrims. The principle of equality is visible in real and large-scale application as the believers perform the rites together in a common dress. Images of the Hajj thus remind us all of the basic equality that supercedes class distinction...
...community. Celebrations of Eid are in some ways microcosms of the Hajj, with the entire community coming out to pray together and to greet one another for the festival. The Eid prayers feature the largest congregations of the year and are a manifestation of the unity of believers. A common faith is an affirmative tie that engenders a moral community transcendent over ethnic, racial and economic differences. At Eid prayers is Boston one sees Arabs, South Asians, African-Americans, East Asians, Caucasian-Americans and Muslims from other ethnic backgrounds praying side by side and embracing one another. Both the Hajj...