Word: make
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decided that I could really use an "-ism." An "-ism" is something that was defined for me a long time ago by my high school European history teacher. Nationalism, Socialism, Communism--"-isms" were things that could make a bunch of disgruntled peasants forget their gripes about the government and focus their energies on their hate for other countries, he explained. "-Isms" were things that people didn't mind going to war for. Meanwhile, in the back of the classroom, my neighbor claimed that he could really get this country going by dispersing the seeds of "j-ism" to the population...
...want to be able to make fun of i-bankers. And then I want to feel sorry for them...
...furniture and a wad of poster gum. But some students turn their cubes into castles with a special flair. They go beyond postering with the Table of Elements and I Believe in Me banners, seeking to escape from a mundane, one-size-fits-all lifestyle. They submerge themselves in make-believe fantasylands. They create their own waterfalls...
...Kenny Loggins, entering the bedroom of Mike S. Ovadia '03 takes you "back to the days of Christopher Robin and Pooh." Ovadia's laundry bag, four clocks, welcome mat, trash can, decorative Kleenex cover, night light, shower curtain, dishware, flatware and towel are all inspired by Winnie the Pooh, making his room a miniature Hundred Acre Woods. Even an Eeyore sticker decorates the cap of his lava lamp. To get to his bed, he wades through waves of stuffed animals that include the more obscure Pooh characters like Kanga and the Heffalumps. "I think I relate a lot to Pooh...
...Friday, December 3, after a harried week of e-mails, phone calls, overheard conversations, reminders of favors due and down-on-both-knees begging, I'd compiled a list of 13 confirmed parties to attend that night, with enough fuzzy gatherings to make me believe that the goal of 15 could indeed be met and perhaps even surpassed...