Word: frats
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...that’s left is a social order with an antiquated hierarchy (Nerds versus Jocks with Frat Boys thrown in), a few funny depictions of keggers and tailgating and the thumping, omnipresent bass of Doctor Dis. It is not enough from an author so dedicated to rigorously depicting the carnival of the American scene. While researching college life, it seems Wolfe leaned too close to the speakers while jotting down notes, for his vaunted hearing has failed...
When ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's asked a Penn State scientist to build a freezer that won't contribute to global warming, the result was like a frat-house experiment gone right. The apparatus uses sound waves to compress and expand helium, which in turn chills a liquid cooling agent--in this case, vodka. Bizarre, but it works: the stainless-steel canister was used last April to cool pints of Cherry Garcia and Chunky Monkey at a New York City scoop shop...
...Yale t-shirt. I have cheered for them at The Game, known as Yale-Harvard in New Haven. I have attended the greater part of Yale’s freshman orientation and even rushed a Yale frat. My high school sent ten students to Yale and only two to Harvard. My best friend’s parents are the masters of Yale’s Morse College. Since sophomore year in high school, I have decked myself out in blue and white every other November and paraded around tailgates taunting Cantabrigians and finding refuge among...
...these nits, once picked, should be discarded and forgotten. What remains is a rich, wise, absorbing and irresistible novel. Wolfe does things with words--exhilarating, intoxicating, impossible things--that no other writer can do. Take this example, from the second page of the book, in which frat boy Hoyt stares at himself in the mirror, dead drunk: "A gale was blowing in his head. He liked it. He bared his teeth. He had never seen them quite this way before. So even! So white! They vibrated from perfection. And his square jaw ... that chin with the perfect cleft...
...Incredible Technologies, Hanson and his colleagues toil away in a dimly lighted room with charcoal gray carpeting, messing with the latest version of Golden Tee, due in 500 locales in November. Each tester has a code-melting specialty--simulating a drunken frat boy, for example--but all suggest that talent goes only so far when they're breaking games until sunrise. Admits Hanson: "You're just doing the same redundant thing, over and over again." Sounds par for the course...