Word: merriments
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...despite this religious apathy or antipathy, the final stretch before Christmas, and the impending Christmas break, is still greeted with unmitigated glee. Certainly, Christmas in America has lost most of its religious flavor, as atheists, secular Jews, and other non-Christians all eagerly mark with merriment the Yuletide occasion. Given this mix of irreligion and desire nevertheless to celebrate a gift-giving holiday, Christmas festivities, decorations, and attitudes around campus have taken on an eccentric flavor...
...really brings out the best in Harvard’s social life. Free parties abound, costumes are creative (or at least skimpy), and everyone seems to let his or her guard down. Pagan origins notwithstanding, the holiday is a lot of fun. I found myself knee-deep in the merriment early Saturday morning, wading down Bow St. along with hundreds of refugees from the aforementioned fire alarm debacle. Steven A. Franklin ’10 was there, wearing a Robin Hood costume. The green tights made his legs look even skinnier than usual, and the pointy hat accentuated...
...becomes more and more frantic, a band of folk musicians bursts in and strikes a chord of wild merriment. A fifty-minute rollercoaster ride then takes the viewer flying through a fantastic world of organic self-renewal and disintegration...
...meaningfully “international” community would recoil instinctively from such a plainly ignorant distortion—one that imputes the reputation of a murderous regime to police officers who had merely asked students for their IDs, quickly learned that their gathering was legitimate, and let the merriment continue unabated. The comparison is no more intelligent, and every bit as obnoxious, as the National Rifle Association’s occasional invocation of the Third Reich’s plentiful gun control laws to make its case for gun rights in America...
...They faced plenty of obstacles: the rude public merriment at their pairing; all the misery the Vatican-cowed Italian government tried to bring to their joint political, financial and personal life; the stories of his infidelities and of the movie stars (Cary Grant, Peter Sellers) utterly smitten by her allure. Yet Ponti and Loren persevered, becoming a metaphor for the lasting attraction of opposites...