Word: merriment
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...know that your very own Harvard boasts the shortest winter break out of all its peer institutions, you’d also be in luck. Yale, as usual, is a close second, but alas, no cigar. Yale has 17 days away from New Haven, four more days of holiday merriment then their studious Cantabrigian counterparts. Sure, four may not seem like much, but bear in mind, it’s about a third of our vacation. Columbia, Dartmouth, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford, Brown and Princeton all surpass the 20-day milestone, awarding their students much-needed rest after the fall...
With all the restrictions placed on merriment at the Game by various Harvard administrators, it will be a wonder if any Yalies, or indeed any Harvardians, actually bother to come. The wide array of misguided, territorial and downright dangerous “solutions” that Harvard has come up with will make this year’s Game the worst ever...
...Bedtime for Bonzo, a parable of cross-species adoption (Reagan and Diana Lynn try raising a chimp as a human child) in which the star spent much of his time with an animal perched in his lap or on his head. Though it gave his detractors much excuse for merriment, Reagan proclaimed himself proud of the film...
...entries put a damper on the pride we take in our 21st century revelry. Abbot, a former resident of Hollis, writes that on the night of March 17, 1857 he returned home from the Class of 1859 Dinner at 4:00 a.m. after a night of drinks and merriment...
...work does not dim the general merriment; it simply colors it with a touch of heartfelt reality. But enough of Curtis' other lovably crazed characters do succeed in finding love in all the unlikely places that you leave the theater with your heart humming happily. He has his dark--well, darkish--side under control. Which is to say that he is an Englishman, well practiced in masking pain and absurdity and descents into sheer goofiness with mannerly behavior, sly irony and stiff upper lips. Don't get me wrong: Love Actually is not a black or even a particularly bleak...