Word: raucousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...something in Rolling Stone saying what man I was with or how my belly button was showing." Though her belly button was safely under wraps, Cher, 38, still got treated to a healthy helping of abuse last week at Harvard's annual Hasty Pudding Theatricals awards. After the requisite raucous parade through Harvard Square, featuring jugglers and Pudding actors in drag ("We're on the cutting edge of androgyny," boasted one), the pop singer-turned-actress was presented with the traditional pudding pot and ribbed about her wiry physique (she was given an oversize bra), her unorthodox attire...
...adversity didn't end there,either. Going up against the godfather of Ivy League coaches. Pete Carril,and the raucous . Tiger fans in cavernous, chilly Jadwin,for a while it seemed the Crimson just couldn't get a break...
...mood is very real, although of course it is not universal," says Morrow. "One day in early fall I flew with the Reagan campaign to Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Outside the hall we could still see the protesters with angry signs. But inside there was a raucous, triumphal, almost overbearing energy. It was as if the campus rage of the '60s had been turned inside...
...each election. We love the blather and boast, the charge and countercharge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal. A President must level, yield and plead. He must take action and then assume responsibility. The army of technocrats who run campaigns doesn't want to give up the raucous joy of the hustings. The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget...
...three decades before the Civil War, more than threescore guides to manners appeared-written, then as now, mainly by women-and their message was best summed up in one title, The Lady's Guide to Perfect Gentility. Throughout the century, a dominant class that felt threatened by raucous immigrants and the social upheavals of the Industrial Revolution saw etiquette as a means of establishing and maintaining a hierarchy. The up-and-coming aped the manners of the rich, the new rich aped the old, and everyone looked yearningly back toward aristocratic Europe...