Word: diversionism
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Bill Reichert '76 was taking a Public Policy course with a brutal take-home exam. He had not done enough reading for it, he says, but one gets the feeling that he may have overreacted. He woke up Monday morning, picked up the exam, and did not sleep until Friday...
With traditional neighbor-neighbor friendliness undermined. I found few avenues for social diversion.
Ivan the Terrible, who suffered from insomnia and, perhaps, a bad conscience, kept three blind old men to tell him fairy stories during the long nights in the Kremlin palace. For at least seven centuries in Russia, czars, noblemen, merchants and peasants sought diversion in the wondrous skazki, the folk...
When the children were old enough to begin walking, they were helped out by a colonial version of a gocart. They were also put in a "standing stool," a small playpen of sorts. Bathing, as we practice it, was unknown. The bowl and pitcher were available, but children were not...
WHOEVER DECIDED to put on this show in the dead of night must have 0intended it to be seen as a frothy little nightcap, a light aperitif after a long evening of more substantial diversion. But whoever it was, he or she was wrong. Not that running a show at...