Word: entertainingness
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Once Wyman's proposal was broached, however, board members gave it a thorough airing. The dissection of the pros and cons went on for several hours. Board members heard legal opinions that they had no obligation to put CBS up for sale. But as one of those present put it...
Which is not to say that the stadium celebration was a complete letdown. For the most part, the gallery of stars, undergraduates and Cambridge youths, provided as entertaining an evening as could likely be expected from the oldest institution of higher education in this country.
The Band, the Hasty Pudding, Collegium, and the Radcliffe Choral Society were all in attendance, and in performance as well. The Band offered one of the more entertaining exhibitions of the evening when it recreated the Boston Tea Party on the field.
At least the accompanying photographs are entertaining. An 1871 posed photograph of the Natural History Society in suits, bowties and hats captures two mischievous members stuffing a small alligator into a jug. Perhaps a shot in a future commemorative volume will show members of the Bibliophiles Club doing the same...
Perhaps Hemingway had trouble with the prospect of publishing the fantasies he was entertaining. His hero, David Bourne, is a young writer whose wife cuts her hair as short as a man's and dyes it ash-white, and persuades him to exchange sex roles in a way whose mechanics...