Word: plebeians
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They are also hoping for about 20 Harvard Square restaurants to offer discounts for students who show their Harvard IDs at any time of day on Oct. 22. In the past, these discounts have been on the order of around 15 percent off, with high-end and plebeian restaurants alike offering discounts to Harvard students...
...since the draft was taking so many students away to Vietnam. They were also angry about what they felt was an out-of-touch administration--the most salient example being the 1968 Commencement, which was held in Sanders Theatre with only the summa cum laudes attending, for the more plebeian magnas and everyone else to watch on television, since they hadn't planned for rain in Tercentenary Theatre...
...Motherhood did not keep Richardson from taking strong stage roles. On Broadway, she was one of the four erotic flagellants in Patrick Marber's biting comedy Closer as well as the one touch of tattered grace in a plebeian revival of Streetcar. And though Londoners shouldn't have been surprised by the way Richardson could wrap an audience in her spell, she was a revelation in Trevor Nunn's take on Ibsen's Lady from the Sea. The plot is high harlequin: a dark and stormy night, a chronically sensitive young wife aching for a strong rogue to free...
Against all odds, my friends and I somehow managed to land tickets to Barack Obama’s inauguration. But while our silver-section admission granted us a closer view than millions of Obama fans teeming on the National Mall, we were still in the most plebeian of ticketed areas. If we wanted the best possible spot, we were going to have to battle with 140,000 other early risers. And unbeknownst to us, we were also going to have to tolerate appalling police incompetence. And so late at night on January 19, I put on three pairs of pants...
Something’s brewing in Adams House, and it’s not just beer. Last week at Carpe Noctem—Adams’ answer to the other houses’ more plebeian Stein Clubs—a blonde ale called “Gold Room Gold” made its debut and house pride bubbled to the surface. The five gallons of “Smada” beer (“Adams” backward), brewed in the house kitchen under the direction of brewmaster Joseph D. Hiatt ’11, ran out within...