Word: hedonistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every clubbie who calls himself a hedonist rather than an elitist, there are ten other non-clubbies who can't see the high striding tuxedos as anything but an attempt at elitism. Fun or vanity, final clubs have and will continue to constitute an economic and social elite at Harvard...
...other candidates had salad, but we had dressing and everybody ate it up," Peter Y. Choi '82 said yesterday, explaining the attention he and other members of the freshman Hedonist Party have been getting in their bid for seats in the Student Assembly...
...takes a lot of motivation," he admits. "I want to let people know I got imagination-- maybe--and I want to have a nice room. Of course, I'm also a hedonist!" He laughs, but then says with pride that his roommates are all getting to be "a lot more practical with their hands" because of the project...
Regrettably, the director largely abandons the altruistic thread in the narrative as he increasingly dwells on Dunn's plunge into the hedonist ethic. The repeated humiliation accorded Theresa by her handsome sexual swordsman (Richard Gere) is designed to serve as a counterpoint to the unrequited love showered on her by the enraptured James Morrissey (William Atherton), but the novelty of the contrast quickly wears off as the subjugation of Theresa becomes progressively uglier. She throws herself into cocaine-sniffing, prostituting herself for the thrill of the act, and blowing off Morrissey out of sheer spite. The schoolteacher identity is tossed...
Vacations are growing more strenuous?occasions more for doing than for sightseeing. It takes an odd mixture of the Spartan and the hedonist to "relax" by boating, hiking, backpacking, climbing, jogging, bicycling, hang-gliding or white-water canoeing. As measured by spending, leisure-time activities have grown to be the chief U.S. industry. Americans are expected to spend more than $160 billion on such leisure and recreation in 1977, and by 1985 the total will probably climb to $300 billion...