Word: conventionalized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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As the presidential primaries approach, those puzzled about politics may no longer have an excuse to avoid the polls. A blog, VoteGopher.com, founded by a Harvard student aims to provide “real information for real people” and to encourage young Americans to participate in the democratic...
In 1940, after two straight losses to Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Republicans turned to someone who was barely in their party. Utility executive Wendell Willkie had been a delegate to the 1924 Democratic Convention. But he criticized F.D.R.'s Tennessee Valley Authority as being a power grab by the Federal...
I hope you can see, after all of these fascinating examples, that personal style is less about dressing beautifully, and more about a certain truculence that laughs in the face of convention. As Harvard women, perhaps we can take a page out of this book. Who knows? Maybe we would...
The act of tipping, common in restaurants, hotels, and strip clubs (among other places), is pervasive in America. But elsewhere it is often unheard-of. In some countries, tacking on 15 percent to a bill is considered an oddly Yankee convention, done only by tourists.
So is Britain playing the role of the Russian bear at the other end of the globe? Not exactly. Six other countries (Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand and Norway) have also laid claims to sectors of Antarctica; those of Chile and Argentina overlap with the British claim. (The United...