Word: paraphernalia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of you will probably dismiss this trend. But beware, for those of you who have already said "nonsense" are the incoming freshmen who have already been conned. You've probably answered every advertisement you've received. Lord only knows how much printed paraphernalia you get before you even set foot on Cambridge soil (and how much more of it you'll get when you finally do). Let's just say the novelty of it all intrigued you to the point of helplessness...
Performance. With Mick Jagger. An overdone display of far out paraphernalia; it is packed with easy plays for sensationalism, but they are old. And except for Jagger in a Batman black skin suit, it is boring. Orson Welles...
...What is the point of "getting away" if we must carry all of our paraphernalia with us to insulate ourselves from a new environment [July 2]? Like the American tour ists who asked the hotel clerk whether they were in the Paris or the Madrid Hilton, campers may soon be asking each other if this is Nettles Island or Camperland...
Also making a major appearance, as he did in a famous feud with Vladimir Nabokov, is Wilson the noble crank. Here he makes a dyspeptic but delightful attack on the cumbersome, pedantic paraphernalia assembled by the Modern Language Association (the college literature teachers' "union") to edit and publish classic American authors. The blame, says Wilson, goes back to "our oppressive Ph.D. system of which we would have been well rid if, at the time of the First World War, when we were renaming our hamburgers Salisbury Steak and our sauerkraut Liberty Cabbage, we had decided to scrap...
...move on quickly seems a large part of camping's allure, but the mood is ambivalent. Some campers put up little name plates or other signs as a kind of personal brand on their sites. They want to get away from home, but they trundle so much paraphernalia, from kitchen appliances to bicycles, that life on the road is not really too different. They want the atmosphere of camping out with the comforts of living in-plus fancy distractions as a bonus. It is a peculiarly American yen, and, in the American manner, it is being satisfied...