Word: hazing
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...help the pilot get the plane to the end of the runway, controllers at ten major airports around the country are equipped with special ground-sweeping radar designed to penetrate the kind of haze that obscured the vision of the KLM and Pan Am pilots last week. During the next five years, 30 more American airports are due to receive the new radar, which still needs to be made more reliable...
...would try to turn on this idea. He would have turned green with envy at the profits, but he would have at least had the comfort of knowing that his version (the one he starred in) was better. Beyond a not-too-great over-all impression and a nostalgic haze, the only scenes that stick in this film are Fay Wray's screen test on the boat heading toward Kong's island and Kong's unveiling in New York before a black tie and monocle society crowd during the Depression. It does indeed best the current version, however...
...Most hazing does not result in death, of course, but if the practice is not always dangerous, it is often demeaning. At Michigan State University hazing was banned by 1950, but it remains an integral part of initiation rites at several fraternities. Senior Steve Ryckman lost interest in joining the Delta Sigma Phi house last year after he developed a burn on his nose from being forced to rub it along a carpet. "They wanted to see how much they could humiliate you," he recalls. "It was degrading." On the Champaign-Urbana campus of the University of Illinois, nearly...
...Serpent is flawed by its glib attempt to examine a fundamentally irreligious society through a religious haze. The lines that emerge as the play's philosophical premise--"So man created God. What for? To see limits on himself."--never become very meaningful or especially convincing. Nonetheless, on opening night one could extract a snippet, albeit strained, of still-valid revelation from the Ex's proficient production... When the cast shared apples from the Tree of Knowledge with the audience, somebody murmured amid the general crunching, "It's delicious...
...class of '65 is not a dead event--its members are still alive, still making decisions, still working out contradictions between their values and their reality. Many of the people described in What Really Happened have already become adults, making reasonable decisions rather than floating around in a haze of options. Their lives go on--professionals, businessmen, masseurs and missionaries--and perhaps in the end they will, in fact, change the world, incorporating their counterculture into their parents' lifestyles. It's hard to pin their rebellion down, true; but maybe that should no longer be the question one asks about...