Word: fop
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...more important that we tear ourselves away from our screens, get outside our rooms and actually meet people. Why not sit next to someone you don’t know next time you’re in a dining hall, or visit that kid you met on FOP but never quite got around to hanging out with...
...Hefner at 77, Playboy at 50: both are aging rou?s, the kind Dedini used to draw in his cartoons. The iconic bunny (a rabbit in an ascot) is today as much an anachronism as the New Yorker?s Eustace Tilley (a fop with a monocle). Or as Hefner, in his silk pajamas and red smoking jacket, when billionaires wear T shirts. Hef, with his interchangeable sex partners (two are twins) and his trademark pipe traded in for Diet Pepsi and Viagra, has become what we are all in danger of morphing into as we grow old: parodies of our younger...
...talent at Harvard who is quickly gaining the respect of her peers. Last spring she directed “Day Standing on its Head” in the Adams Pool Theater, and she will hold a reading next month. When not being sidelined for the Crimson, find her leading FOP or dancing with the Harvard-Radcliffe Dance Company...
...disclaimer: for those of you who did not go on FOP, worry not. The woods are a facilitator for these kinds of lessons, but not the only place where they can be learned. The environment just helps the process along...
...says in the FOP handbook: “If anyone asks what FOP was like, you can tell them: ‘We were organized, thorough and prepared. We took care of ourselves in basic ways. We entrusted people with our lives, learned to do without and persevered at different things. We learned to use new tools and we took care of what we had with us. We lived simply.’ And if they are perceptive, they will say, ‘You don’t need the mountains to do that...