Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...it’s the holiday season, a time when columns of this nature often degenerate into cheesy, insufferable, sports-themed parodies. You know the sort of thing I’m referring to here. “’Twas the night before Christmas / And all through the place / The joy had all drained / From Jordan’s fat face.” Then, you’ve got your wish list-themed columns. “Oh, and for Christmas this year, let’s get Memphis Grizzlies forward Pau Gasol a letter...
...these holiday list sports columnists call for an end to arrogance where each player conducts himself with elegance and class. They also want timidity. They want restraint and reluctance. They want the athlete’s soul to be seen on the court, field or ice, but not heard...
Harvard’s next contest is on Saturday at cross-town rival Northeastern, before heading off for a holiday trip to Syracuse...
...come to Harvard to exist in a bland, colorless environment. Public holiday observances, secularized or still heavy with religious meaning, are an integral part of a vital and lively community. So give the Christian students their public Christmas trees. In a way, while I do not practice their religion, they are my Christmas trees...
...from the perspective of a Harvard student, I find the notion of keeping these holiday observances strictly out of sight to be a disappointment. Harvard College is a close-knit and diverse residential community, which welcomes and supports all sorts of students. Harvard wisely does not refrain from engaging us on spiritual and religious terms when taking over significant portions of our personal lives—we eat Harvard food, sleep in Harvard beds and worship in Harvard churches, synagogues and mosques. As a Harvard student, I expect my University, which has taken over so much of my residential life...