Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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February, 1977: Euphoria--There seemed to be a little more pre-Beanpot thought now that fancy had become ritual. I tried to characterize the participants. Boston University, traditional collegiate hockey power, was The Revered. Boston College, whose blown-dry kiss-me-I'm-Irish throng would fill half the seats in the Garden (the three remaining schools took the other half) was The Beloved. Northeastern, the commuter school on Huntington Ave. that never seemed to park itself in the 9:00 pm finals, had a Sports Information Director known as Jack "6:00" Grinold. The Huskies were The Damned...
...Vegetarians can get good nutritious meals, a rare find at Harvard, and even the carnivores are generally pleased with the diversity of the fare, although calls for more meat periodically arise (tough on a low budget). Fresh-baked bread appears every so often. Milk and cookies is a weekly ritual, and people may sit around the living room for hours, unlike the get-a-cookie-and-run strategy prevalent in the Quad Houses. Jordanites can eat at the Houses on a meal exchange program (since you can eat at the Jordans) and pay less for the same meal...
...cherry, bold voice behind me saying gosh, gee, the wait isn't as bad as last year. It is Bill Bossert himself, here to check out the scene and cheer us up. Minutes after he leaves the room The Machine crashes again, and, having failed to perform the holy ritual of "writing the programs into a file" I suffer heavy casualties. Everything is lost. A freshman materializes at my elbow and says he has my terminal for the next hour. "Fair is fair," he tells me, and I have to agree...
...typical Middle Eastern home. He evidently enjoys the company of his 14 grandchildren. He is said to have a weak heart, has suffered from a form of undulant fever and can work for only a few hours a day. Still he performs the devout Muslim's daily ritual of prayer without visible effort. He subsists on a sparse diet of rice, bean curd, yogurt and raw onions, supplemented now and then by a slice of melon or a bit of mutton. There are some signs that power has begun to intoxicate him. He has admitted enjoying the adulation...