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...resident, does. The “let’s all be glad we have food” self-righteousness may masquerade as conscientious consideration of life’s admittedly more important problems like starvation in the Third World, but it really arises from indulgence and provincialism: the singular condition of parents paying for everything—room, board, books and classes—thus rendering the quality of goods and services received for the most part irrelevant to the student. As long as Mom and Dad are the ones footing the bill, students have little incentive to care...
Many cultures make singular contributions to humanity, and in the case of the Limbu people of eastern Nepal, it is the drink known as tongba. Outsiders rarely get to savor this heady millet brew, which would have remained virtually unknown outside this remote area if it wasn't for the occasional mention in guidebooks. But tongba is like Guinness to the Irish or whisky to the Scots: it's something to celebrate and revel in, and to stumble and sing under its influence...
...unique nature of the championships did not change, however. The fans were just as intense and proximate, the singular nature of the contest remained, and the adrenaline was pumping as hard as ever...
Where Howdy Doody whooped up a crowd of kids, Captain Kangaroo addressed "you"--singular. He introduced himself as a kindly, absentminded host, continually pulling surprises out of his oversize pockets (whence the Kangaroo). There was typical kids'-show fun, with a panoply of pals that included the Banana Man, Dancing Bear, and Tom Terrific with his sidekick Mighty Manfred the Wonder Dog. But there was also an underlying seriousness of purpose. On his first broadcast, taking young viewers on a tour around the Treasure House--which later became the Captain's Place--Captain Kangaroo even did the on-TV unthinkable...
...center of undergraduate life, with “ample space for reading, study, games, and conversation,” a library, offices for all student activities, publications and athletics, as well as Harvard’s famous “Great Hall.” Higginson’s singular vision was the Harvard Union, now known as the Barker Center for the Humanities...