Word: customs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This annual freshman-sophomore football game was apparently the successor of another annual contest, a wrestling match between the two classes, a Harvard custom in the eighteenth century. Because the freshman-sophomore affair usually ended in a brawl, students got to calling game-day "Bloody Monday...
...fashion. Seeing their opponents so nattily attired, the Harvard players were mortified for they wore no special uniform. The players had not felt called upon to indulge in such extravagance. Each man wore dark trousers, a white undershirt, and a magenta handkerchief tied around his head, as was the custom with the Harvard crews...
...Adzope's dances, he took the microphone to sing French translations of the Beatles. Then a few days later, at dinner, he sat his guests in a circle and offered bangui, palm wine, in a traditional ceremony. People tend to forget the observances and even the shell of custom, he told the guests. "My great-grandfather is buried on the hill, and now the school has covered over the grave. Things have been changing quickly. But this is all right," he said, "as long as people remember that the bones are still there...
...like to be assured that "the average American knows how to handle his liquor" and his powerful car on a crowded highway as well. I'd like to see a freer social attitude so that some might choose to be nondrinkers without pressure by advertising and social custom to get with the crowd. Try to see my thoughts and beliefs as honest and objective and not in the fanatic class, some of whom have almost driven me to drink over the years...
...event unenforceable. Publications of the Methodists, who long practiced or avowed total abstinence, now freely discuss such subjects as appropriate and inappropriate drinking-and appropriate and inappropriate abstinence. Welcoming 1968 with more drinking but less drunkenness, the U.S. stands established as a moderate drinking society, in which social custom is beginning to serve as a far better control over the drinking habit than either statutes or disapproval...