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...seasonal zeal for gift giving is not confined to the U.S. Taking their cue from the U.S., stores and streets all over Western Europe are decked out in Christmas trim to lure affluent buyers. In officially atheistic Russia, where the authorities frown upon the "bourgeois" tradition of Christmas, citizens still crowd into department stores and exchange gifts around the "New Year's trees" while children babble about "Grandfather Frost." In Hindu India, gifts and greetings are exchanged, and on Christmas Day the shops close and liquor prohibitions are relaxed. In Islamic Morocco, seven-year-old Princess Amina, daughter...
...signals this understanding by giving a girl his fraternity pin, following up with roses delivered to her sorority house during a candlelight ceremony. Dating security leads at least to the doorstep necking or the kiss before class that sometimes is known as P.D.A.-public demonstration of affection. The authorities frown on P.D.A. "We don't want to discourage kissing," says the University of Miami's Assistant Dean Louise Mills. "But we do try to tell the girls they shouldn't do it in public...
Many a smile of a summer night has been changed to a frown by the congregational chanting of early-rising folk singers who have been humming and strumming on the steps of Widener Library, prior to the building's 10 p.m. closing time...
Gregarious Al Lopez, manager of the Chicago White Sox, wore an unusual frown. His team had never opened a season in Washington before. "What do I do when I'm introduced to the President?" he asked. "Curtsy...
...turning parts of the state into little Venices, pushing fingers of land out into waterways and interlacing them with canals so that everyone can moor his boat at his own front door. The housing industry's hard-sell tactics, full of gimmicks that staid real estate men frown on, do most to revive old fears that Florida's economy, which collapsed so disastrously in the '205, is again made of papier-mache and overpapered mortgages. Despite the inrush of population, home builders still have put up more houses than they can sell. Says Economist Wolff: "There...