Word: lifeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student-faculty advisory committees, at this point, still have more power than the two-year-old student assembly. They are the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate LIFE (CHUL) and the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities...
...sweet Delta plantation princess that it was irrational for two healthy, mature adults to deny themselves the God-given pleasures of sexual play. I figured that anybody intelligent enough to get into Harvard would not let something as puerile as religious convictions prevent her from living a normal adult life. Sure, I wrote the perfunctory essay about how I was going to use my Harvard education for the benefit of mankind, or, at least, to enhance my ability to appreciate the complexity of life around me. But, as I later learned in Psych 1650, my unconscious had other plans...
FRESHMAN WEEK BEGAN MY RETREAT from Harvard, my frantic attempts to assuage my loneliness and frustration by clinging to memories of life and friends at boarding school. I know it's a little unfashionable to praise prep school, with all its elitist connotations, but for me it was a haven, an unrelenting series of academic challenges enlivened by warm friendships with students and teachers. I didn't think I had swallowed the social caste propaganda--I am proud of my Syrian Jewish heritage and my immigrant grandparents. I had gone to public schools until tenth grade, and I knew intelligence...
...well, seduced families into retreating into houses with closed doors and shut windows, reducing the commonalty of neighborhood life and all but obsoleting the front-porch society whose open casual folkways were an appealing hallmark of a sweatier America. Is it really surprising that the public's often noted withdrawal into self-pursuit and privatism has coincided with the epic spread of air conditioning...
...many Americans taking the waters? For a generation of joggers and beansprouters, mineral water is the ultimate health drink: no calories, artificial flavorings, sweeteners or preservatives. "The primary reason for the Perrier craze," believes Charles Welsh, the company's Western U.S. sales director, "is that the American life-style is heading toward natural food and drink." For many people who have grown wary of pollution in their tap water, a bottle of Saratoga or Evian is, pure and simple, just safer than the kitchen faucet...