Word: traditionalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The name Starbucks, referring to the first mate in Melville's leviathan novel, is meant to evoke the romance of the high seas and the seafaring tradition of the early coffee traders. So claims the recent paperback, Pour Your Heart Into It, written by the company's CEO. Starbucks connotes...
Spring is here, and the Museum of Fine Arts is opening its three gardens. Art in Bloom, a springtime tradition that highlights the art form of flower arranging, closes today. MFA, 465 Huntington Ave., Boston. 276-9300. 10 a.m. to 9:45 p.m. FREE.
Many Harvard affiliates feared the introduction of women into the University community. Professor Barrett Wendell decried "the unobserved encroachment of women that sapped the pure virility of the Harvard tradition and undermined Harvard as a school for manly character" in 1899.
These sites are attuned to specific patterns and customs, such as the Habsburg and Russian mandates that Jews adopt national surnames, the early Jewish tradition of passing on the mother's maiden name in a religious marriage rather than the father's in a civil one, and the tendency among...
She's not alone in this view. Tufts University professor Daniel Dennett, an enthusiastic and prolific memeticist, acknowledges that it's an unsettling philosophy. "People are terribly afraid that this is going to rob them of authorship and creativity, that it will be the swallowing up of the self." That...