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...like the "wave." Then there are all the festivities that have emerged spontaneously: the Burning Man Festival, the Berlin Love Parade and Halloween as an occasion for grownup revelry. We seem to be impelled, almost instinctively and even in the absence of surviving traditions, to create occasions for communal joy...
...needy, and let the pine trees live. Instead, rent the local V.F.W. hall or a hotel ballroom, deck it with boughs of holly, and invite the entire town for a vast blowout. O.K., it won't bring world peace. But if we have this primordial capacity for collective joy...
Ehrenreich is an essayist and the author of the forthcoming book Dancing in the Streets: A History of Collective Joy...
...worriedly question the Financial Aid Office when they haven’t been told of their renewed eligibility status. “It’s clear that returning students take advantage of it each year,” says Hussey. NO SUCH THING AS FREE LUNCH Despite the joy the SEF brings to those who are on it, the program can sometimes be a burden to those on the other side—the producers of events. UC presidential hopeful Amadi P. Anene ’08 participated in a meeting earlier in the semester...
...next double-oh agent. He is merely getting ready to make a donation—to the local sperm bank. California Cryobank, located at 950 Massachusetts Ave., aggressively recruits Harvard students to “supplement your income while giving others the chance to experience the joy of starting a family.” And if your sperm have got it, you’ve got it made; a qualified donor can make up to $900 a month, and Steve was no exception. “Steve,” who was granted anonymity due to the unusually private nature...