Word: customs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gift for equatorial observation but doesn't like to rough it. He wants his adventures to come with a four-star hotel and perhaps a chilled bottle of Puligny-Montrachet at day's end. (Jane, the practical one, does all the booking.) He writes about the Caribbean custom of doing as one pleases, then asking "forgiveness, not permission," but when he's repeatedly denied permission to land his seaplane in the waters along his route, he obeys. And when he's flying near the island of Carriacou and sees a "lost tribe of tarpon" in the sea below, he wants...
...notion--of personalized content and advertising--has been a kind of Internet holy grail for years. Now, finally, the Web is delivering. Its tens of thousands of sites can match your needs and desires as quickly as your Pentium can get online. It's possible to get everything from custom newspapers to electronic newsletters that alert you to sales of items you've always craved. Futurists used to call these services "The Daily Me," a play on the idea of daily newspapers. But customized websites are delivering something more like "the instant me"--real-time collections of just the information...
Hawthorne's birthplace and the House of Seven Gables, which inspired his novel of that name, sit side by side a few blocks from the Custom House...
...supposedly normal expectation, I am delighted with every aspect of this event, and I'd be pleased to see it last a few more days, perhaps a year. One reason has to do with ceremony. You remember Yeats' lines in "A Prayer for My Daughter"--"How but in custom and in ceremony/Are innocence and beauty born?" I like the idea that all these contributing professionals--the gown person, the cake person, the flowers person, the food person, the tent person, the music person, the God person--are coming together for an ancient purpose. They each know what to do. They...
...This custom changed in the late '60s as the relationship between students and the University became more antagonistic...