Word: properly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There's one hitch. The drinking age in Massachusetts is 21, and it's widely enforced, both in Cambridge and on the Harvard campus. But if you've got a picture I.D. that indicates the proper age, you shouldn't have a problem taking advantage of Cambridge night life...
...1970s joggers were everywhere, all seemingly in training for the marathon. Other citizens, plunging into alternate activities, were equally fervid. Swimmers boasted of laps completed, cyclists of long-distance touring, and weight lifters of pounds pressed. Today Americans live in a land where fit is proper. Strut your sweat. The majority, who remain woefully unfit, are now the ones who feel out of step; shamefacedly, they even outfit the body as if they exercised it. Togged out in sneaks and sweats, they proclaim their affiliation, in spirit if not in the flesh, with the fitness generation. The prototype runners below...
...their civil rights, portrayals of members of their sex that they find insulting. People who attempt to restrict what others are allowed to read do not imagine themselves as enemies of Democracy. I must allow that they pay ideas the backhanded tribute of fearing their power. But the proper antidote to obnoxious or wicked concepts is exposure, not suppression. The urge to censor betrays a disregard for the intelligence of others. To mistrust the judgment of one's fellow citizens is to question, ultimately, their ability to govern themselves...
...like-to-eat question, but clearly in America there is no "just" about a sandwich. Nowhere else in the world are sandwiches taken so seriously, and nowhere else do they make up so large and diverse a culinary discipline. Passions run high in defense of personal favorites and the proper way to make them: Should the bread that holds tuna salad be white or rye, plain or toasted? Is mayonnaise, Russian dressing, butter or mustard the correct spread for ham or turkey or roast beef? Does lettuce have any place at all in a sandwich of sliced meat...
...lots of lawyers, decision-makers, big wigs and small ones, and even dieticians. So graduates, before you go off to some toney investment banking house, some impressive government agency or even some struggling altruistic enterprise, look at the Harvard Corporation, do the opposite, and learn how to be a proper leader...