Word: merriment
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...merriment on the Yale Bowl field following Harvard’s win on Saturday. As ecstatic Harvard students charged onto the field following the game’s final play, some were sprayed with mace by officers of the Yale University Police Department (YUPD) and two students were arrested...
...with more fans. You meet up with friends at the tailgates. (There is ALWAYS a non-exclusive tailgate on days of home football games, as the H-club teams up with another group or person and provides food to match the already abundant drink.) You revel in the tailgate merriment, and then wander over with a friend or two to the rugby field. Once you are perpetually confused by the rules to the sport , you head back to the tailgates for a bit and meet up with a few straggling friends. This back and forth between various games and tailgates...
...much the same way that my late night hero, David Letterman could not bring himself to jump back into the merriment of stupid human tricks or cynical jokes about the Commander-in-Chief when his show went on-air again, I can’t justify spending time reading about the right way to flirt with a crush or why the red and pink two-piece combo is so last season. The alternating accounts of devastation and heroism that are a constant part of most conversations and news clips have made whimsical decisions and activities harder to enjoy...
Goodwin continued the merriment, speaking of her upcoming book on Abraham Lincoln and her choice to focus on his political rather than his military leadership...
When did progressivism become Harvard's ideology of un-fun? Whatever else its shortcomings, the left has never seemed short on merriment. When members of Students for a Democratic Society took over University Hall in 1969 to protest the presence of ROTC on campus, they didn't forget to bring their stashes of marijuana. They chafed against the constraints of University and governmental authority. They were fighting for their right--and the rights of others--to enjoy the good life, and that life sometimes included the standard vices: drinking, drugs and surely, now and then, a little gambling...