Word: weekended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...clock or so. They chatted amiably and exchanged stories of their Saturday night adventures. They dressed and each looked themselves over in the mirror, Louise taking a little longer to comb out that last stray wisp of hair, and finally, pleased with the results, they were ready to leave. Weekend meals were proving to be more interesting for Louise than Adrian. They provided her with the opportunity to flirt with real men, not those cloddy freshmen who were always bumping into your chair in the Union with a loaded tray and spilling milk all over the jacket you had hanging...
...eyes and finally, at the end of the meal, leaning back in her chair, with a lighted cigarette between her fingers. Adrian found the whole scene revolting. After all, she thought, it was noon on a Sunday. Wasn't it time to stop thinking about men until the weekend? Wasn't Harvard going to be more than one long Friday night...
Although Harvard students may fantasize about weekends packed with adventure, mystery or violence, chances are that few, if any, have enough time to make their dreams come true each weekend. But for the last decade, House film societies have attempted to make money by letting people live out their fantasies vicariously. The comics, western toughs, sophisticated gamblers and icily composed lovers who inhabit the silver screen enliven audiences sated with papers, computers, and endless reading lists...
...wasn't an appropriate time to discuss it, and we should just get to business and divide up the rooms in the Science Center. If that's not the time, when is? What am I supposed to do, leave the projectionist's booth in Sci Center C one weekend, knock on the door at B and say to whoever's there, 'Gee, aren't these rules awful...
...societies must look for a place to show it, and the options usually boil down to the Science Center, Emerson Hall or the House dining hall. Since they can hold the largest audiences, the Science Center lecture halls are the most desirable, but only two rooms are available each weekend. The main duty of the Film Studies Council is to conduct a lottery at the beginning of each semester to divide the use of the two rooms among the different societies. If a society fails to get a room when it wants it, it can try to sign up during...