Word: soberly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a month of cold showers, water valve will be fixed. Guess residents will have to find a new way to keep sober...
...find some way to kill the time. Newspapers offer up the new and different on a daily basis. Whether it's the latest dish on Monica's fetishes or a more sober update on Saddam's antics, the events and personalities amount to a collection of on-going stories, almost a serial novel, which one can follow with baited breath anew each morning. The missing element, however, is completion, an elusive goal at best, but a deep human longing nonetheless...
This is not to say that having fun while sober is impossible. It is just a greater challenge to do so on this campus than elsewhere. We can't advocate a movement toward a campus of lushes, but we can admit that drinking can be pleasurable and that many students are much more fun to be with when within the range of tipsy to a bit intoxicated...
What is disturbing is many students' inability to let down their guard and relax while sober. Dancing is scarce at many campus parties, and the little that takes place is terribly inhibited. Most students, especially men, refuse to dance before downing a beer. After that beer, one might hope for good company. But inevitably, someone broaches the topic of schoolwork, likely to complain about how many pages there are to write the next morning for one class or another. Papers as cocktail talk? Professors would be pleased, but there are no TFs around to award brownie points. The whole thing...
...decide to offer some to the fellow revelers sitting around them. Apparently, the spirit of communal property that defined the 1960's is one hallmark of that era that has not survived. I was denied a swig and had to endure the rest of the evening in a painfully sober state...