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Today, discussions on compulsory chapel seem quaint and far removed from the issues of the day. Chapel flourishes at Harvard, but on a voluntary and unobtrusive basis, although there still remains a rule discouraging, if not prohibiting, the holding of academic exercises between 8:40 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. Monday through Saturday in term (the time set aside for chapel) a rule that is routinely ignored by those courses that dare to meet at 8:00 a.m. Religion, however, continues to be a subject that arouses passions and suspicions in a place that to many is still professedly...
...brightest to conquer space and whup the Russkies. What's My Line? and To Tell the Truth were urbane soirées, frequented by brainiacs and swells like publisher Bennett Cerf and arts advocate Kitty Carlisle, and quiz shows celebrated academics. Twenty-One scandalized the nation--and isn't it quaint to think of Americans being scandalized over a game show?--because people wanted to believe in intellectual Charles Van Doren, who was fed answers. Jeopardy! and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire follow that tradition, quizzing contestants on literature and science, things classy people are supposed to know about. Even...
Within the song’s two minutes and 17 seconds, a miniature scale model of the band manages to wreak havoc on the otherwise quaint, tiny town the video’s live-action amateur enthusiast constructs...
Second, once you do notice us, kindly refrain from cutting off our path away from your frenetic domain. Crosswalks are not actually street art; we have a quaint custom in this state whereby both horse-drawn and horseless carriages must yield to the crossing foot soldier. There are few sadder sights in the Square than that of a lonely student waiting politely for a car to pause for him on Mass. Ave. At even such tender young ages, we are forced to become hardened kamikazes on every perilous trip to the Harvard Box Office...
...context of this quaint Ivy League program with its history of disappointment, Amaker’s resume becomes all the more astonishing...