Word: yesteryears
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...elders, and now it has been taken back by the grownups-masks, costumes, witches, jack-o'-lanterns and all. Increasingly in the '80s, Halloween has become an escapist extravaganza for adults, a trickless treat that more closely resembles Mardi Gras than the candy-and-apple surfeits of yesteryear. This year's celebration will be the most raucous ever, lasting four or five days in some places, a virtual Halloweek...
...addressed love letters while the author snorkels in Cancún. Nor is there a great heaving nostalgia attached to the old machine. The history of its growth reads as excitingly as politics in Ottawa. Besides, people these days show far too much reflex yearning for the snows of yesteryear. Let the thing go. Indeed, one can briefly sum up the reasons for looking back with moderate affection on the manual typewriter and still not feel that the world is about to lose a piece of its heart...
...that glory, at least for now, is history. This year's squad is a lot less big and a lot less awesome than usual. Gone are such heroes of yesteryear as Charlie Bott, Al Halliday. Roy Roberts and Mark Cooley. They're legends now, consigned to an era which may very well go down in the books as Harvard rugby's Golden...
...group of students most interested in issues of civil rights. It would be one thing if a minority-led boycott of a stuffy course on corporate law was widely disregarded. But this is a group of students who, in professing to want to study the civil rights battles of yesteryear, are explicitly rejecting what BLSA says is the civil rights battle of today...
...dismaying his old buddies. Why We Were in Vietnam proves the transition--from a man who used to write ponderous articles against the war (didn't everyone') to a man who will defend Vietnam as a moral triumph. It's, finally, the attacked on the ultimate orthodoxy of yesteryear: it is a bid for superstardom in neo-conservative circles, a bid to become the Duke Kehanomoko on this wave. It is a book, in other words, that sits up and begs for abuse...