Word: frats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been a mildly successful novel (1968) by Richard Hooker and a surprise hit movie (1970) directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner Jr. Most of the TV show's major characters were sketched in by the movie, but the tone was '50s frat house, and the emphasis was on the safety-valve sexual high jinks that the heroes perpetrated on some of their uptight colleagues. These droll humiliations would have been too raunchy for TV and too alienating for audiences in search of a weekly identification figure. Enter Alan Alda, who was starring in films...
...frat-house leer is evident in today's collegiate slang. To get naked means to have a good time, whether or not sex is involved. (That is a new shortened form of the get-drunk-and-get-naked party, which collegians fantasized about 20 years ago.) At Michigan State University, one who is vomiting is driving the bus, a reference to the toilet seat and the wretch's need to hang on to it. Sckacks means ugly. A two-bagger is a girl who requires exactly that to cover her ugliness. Young women, of course, retaliate. At breakfast...
...infield is for men. Black-leathered motorcycle riders, general hell raisers and frat boys down for a look at the fun all stake out their separate claim Turn One is the "Snake Pit," the motorcycle mecca, Harley Heaven. The bikers get drunk, get crazy, get naked, get sick, and get beat up for the amusement of corporate executives sitting in the luxury $30.000 boxes across the track. Turns Two and Three are slightly less populated but boast a steady level of determined merrymaking...
...tool on a Friday afternoon or evening." Dave now dates "without worrying about whether she and I match up intellectually. I just don't seem to want to go to art museums or the symphony anymore when I go out." He adds, "I'm not sure if the frat itself doesn't have something to do with...
...Simmons and Wellesley, upholding a symbiotic relationship between the three schools that has existed as long as most House alumni can remember. Everyone talks about THE stat: 50 per cent of all Simmons women marry MIT men. Even if it is an exaggeration, and most insist it is, MIT frat members are prone to long-standing romances with the women from Brookline Avenue, and it is not at all unusual to hear nuptials discussed over milk and cookies...