Word: plebeian
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...onto the linoleum floor of the Alchemist’s Lair. My classically pre-Harvardian outburst won me more than just scornful laughs. Instead of revolution, what I got were two weeks of isolation from my imagined comrades. And while it may have been lonely actively refraining from the plebeian trappings of the other members of Wampanoag Cabin, I know now that I most certainly wasn’t alone, because across the country, at science camps and singing camps and sports camps, future Harvard students’ revolutions were being awkwardly thwarted by the exact same forces. But just...
...grades to actually ponder life’s philosophical complexities. By now, hopefully, you’ve figured out that we’re talking about Lamont Café. No matter why Harvard’s caffeine addicts show up there (perhaps they consider themselves too intellectual for this plebeian assemblage, or simply want their coffee in the morning and are too good for the dining hall?), it’s clear that Lamont is not best serving their needs. Luckily, there are other options, many of them closer to most of the Houses than Lamont. So this midterm season...
...follow the events through the eyes of Lucius Vorenus (Kevin McKidd) and Titus Pullo (Ray Stevenson), two lower-class soldiers in Caesar's 13th Legion. This plebeian odd couple--Pullo's a rogue, Vorenus a by-the-book prig--offer grounding and some nicely turned comic relief, as when Pullo, jailed for disobeying an order, petitions Forculus, a Roman god of doors. "I will kill for you a fine white lamb," he promises. "Or failing that--if I couldn't get a good one at a decent price--then six pigeons." But the scripts resort to contrivance and coincidence...
Perhaps it’s nostalgia or, more likely, the product of obliviousness in my younger days, but Red Sox fans weren’t always this way. Sure, they were never cute or cuddly, and their collective accent has always registered as foreign and plebeian to the New York ear, but those differences never seemed to constitute an unbridgeable...
...horreur! With many French sports fans still hotly denying accusations that cycling is plagued by doping, imagine the outcry at suggestions that all is not right with the nation's other beloved plebeian pastime - pétanque. The iconic Provençal game (also known as boules, a reference to the three metal balls each player uses) is enjoyed casually by an estimated 15 million French people at least once a year - usually vacationers or older gents whiling away their retirement years. As unstrenuous as its British cousin, darts, pétanque requires contestants to toss their metal projectiles closer...