Word: commonization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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John L. Koethe, recently named winner of the 1998 Kingsley-Tufts Award, read selections Tuesday night from his latest book of poetry, Falling Water, in a reading at the Adams House Lower Common Room...
...floor shakes and deafening curses fill the air. Is this a scene straight out of war-torn Eastern Europe? No--the setting is Harvard's usually peaceful undergraduate common rooms. The cause is not bad grades or even upcoming midterms. It's much more important than that: procrastinating students are playing video games...
...game players admit that the activity of their entryway revolves around their four brightly colored Nintendo 64 controllers. All of these students voice loud support for "Bond," their favorite game. (Note: The word "Bond" must be yelled.) In accordance with his obsession, Jamil K. Shamasdin hopes to redecorate his common room with "Bond chairs...to serve as thrones for our pasttime." "Bond chairs" are something like airport chairs with an attached table--but the unique furniture piece is impossible to describe perfectly to anyone who does not share Shamasdin's passion...
HRDC manages most of the student theatrical productions during the year. At the beginning of each semester, the organization coordinates common casting--a system through which students can audition in a single week for most of the plays that will go up throughout the semester...
...President?s not alone on this one; he has the governors of Virginia and California (homes to AOL and Intel), not to mention common sense, in his corner. And as long as most states remain opposed, Clinton gets to do what he relishes most: Crisis management from the bully pulpit...