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...have met, the classes we have taken, and the extracurricular activities we have poured our hearts into. Understandably then, graduating is an emotional personal moment, and consequently, during it, expensive keepsakes should be the last things on on one’s mind. However, there is a growing trend toward reducing the personal importance of the occasion to potential purchases. For example, Harvard encourages families to send out graduation announcements, in the same way one would announce the birth of one’s child, and to purchase class rings that generally exceed $400—not chump change. Even...
...Rififi was a trend-setter but not a total original. John Huston's heist movie The Asphalt Jungle came out in 1950. And two years before Rififi, Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear sent crooks from several nations on a desperate mission: driving trucks loaded with dynamite across treacherous South America roads, with death waiting at each hairpin turn. (Bosley Crowther in The New York Times: "You sit there waiting for the theatre to explode...
...these bandwagon fans succeed in ruining the self-pitying and self-gratifying Boston Red Sox tradition, it will be no great loss. But if this trend accelerates, baseball will, like other professional sports, sink deeper into the ignominy of our soulless entertainment culture...
Many black radio hosts say for the time being they're content with enjoying the renewed interest in the political process sparked by the closely contested Democratic race - a trend they hope will continue. "It's the greatest," adds Joyner. "I just hope it lasts; I've been wanting to see people this engaged for years...
...argued that several Harvard proposals—such as widening the Weeks footbridge to allow for shuttle service—will do little to change the trend...