Word: rituals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...looks like a pig-in-blanket cocktail snack performs "Soapin' Up the Hawg" at the beginning of the short story, "The Mighty Kingdom of Shrimpy-Ub." His motivation for doing so, on a rug in the middle of his living room, remains unspoken, as do the origins of the ritual. His roommate Paul, who has a similar wiener-like shape, but taller and with a nose, lips and pronounced nipples, cocks his eyebrow in bafflement. The dance seems connected to the little Ib-Ubs, tiny four-legged creatures who begin erecting small towers on the floor using the bricks that...
...spring ritual of blocking, with all of its tense and sometimes bitter diplomatic maneuvering, was a more political ordeal for the Class of 2003 than for any first-year class since Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 randomized House assignments in 1995. In spring 2000, Lewis’ decision to cut the maximum blocking group size from 16 to eight students spurred a petition signed by over half the first-year class...
...curriculum as in all areas, ours is the challenge of continuous renewal. At no time is that more apparent than today, when our graduates depart, our alumni return, all part of a ritual known as “Commencement.” As we commence an agenda of renewal—of Harvard College, of our physical campus and indeed of the Faculty itself—let us bear in mind our historic capacity for change, and let us remain humble. Let us take to heart the lessons of an “international” scholar, who lived long...
Their musical tastes intersected in what Anthony describes as a “folksy rock” and soon a room ritual evolved—a nighttime order of Tommy’s pizza followed by hours of guitar-playing...
...days this term. She had fallen back into my life when I was mired in a thesis-induced haze, and she referred to the little cackles that drifted through the cracks of my bedroom wall when Toby, Mike and I buckled over the sink brushing our teeth (a sometimes ritual). That laughter was the only thing that pushed me through my senior thesis, my breakups and the bleary days that followed all-nighters at The Crimson. Even when we were all dispersed in far off computer labs dashing off final chapters, the e-mail reincarnation of our jokes made...