Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they are likely to a) look at you mournfully and elaborate on the uncooperative nature of their senior theses, b) sigh blissfully at the thought of sleeping off the residue of that last tutorial paper, c) launch into a 20-minute discourse on snow conditions at their favorite ski resorts, or d) blush and mumble something about a grandmother in Miami...
Anton will head for Kentucky and Cleveland, Ohio for a medical school interview and a visit to his grandmother respectively. Then he'll come back east to attend Harvard ski camp at Lake Placid, N.Y. After five "crazy" days skiing with the 18 men and women attending the camp, and five "rowdy" nights sampling Lake Placid's few bars, Anton says he'll be ready for the next stop on his schedule, a visit with his family in Southern California.1
...properly understand downhill skiing, the outsider must begin with the knowledge that all skiers have a bit of the masochist in them. There are a ton of good reasons to fear or dislike the sport--injuries are all too frequent, slopes are bound to be crowded, conditions are bound to be terrible, and above all, it's usually cold out there. So why does anyone in his or her right mind ski? It is hard to convince the non-masochists...
...current provisions allow a Harvard employee to use sick leave for pregnancy "just as if she had the flu or broke her leg on a ski slope," Loretta Stokes, personnel administrator, said yesterday...
...show seem abashed by its implicit sexism. In the first few episodes, Charlie (whose face is never shown and whose voice belongs to Actor John Forsythe) is seen disporting himself with spectacular sex objects and cracking leering jokes. As a pretty snow bunny bounces past him in a ski resort, he archly informs the Angels (over the speaker phone by which he communicates with them) that the scenery reminds him of "the majestic shapes of Switzerland." Later, after an accident on the slopes, he speaks of his excellent physical therapist as another cutie slithers past the camera. He adds that...