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...Lowell House Formal used to be a triple feat: jump from the watered-down punch in the Junior Common Room, to the thinned-out ‘80s pop in the dining hall, to the water-logged dance floor outside. This year tradition is thrown to the wind as Lowellians trek to Boston—just a hop, skip and a jump away...
...Prestige-wise, the Algonquin ranks second to the Somerset. Family bloodlines are not as consequential as the corporate credit lines. Capitalism proves itself in the Algonquin to be the great equalizer—in the early ’80s, the club’s membership was predominantly WASP, but today its thousand members reflect the growing racial diversity of the city’s corporate population...
...Today it more or less pursues that mission. The club is notorious for its formerly all-male musicals. Much like the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, members submit plays every season for selection and the winner is staged and performed by the members. In the late ’80s, the Tavern was perhaps the most vocal opponent to sexual integration. One production, included a song entitled, “We love the ladies.” Its final refrain: “But we’d rather have the place in embers/ Than see them as regular members...
Palauans have always lived from the sea, but it was not until the mid-'80s that overfishing became a problem. After a half-century as a U.S. trust territory, Palau was preparing for independence in 1994--and promoting commercial fishing for export as a way of earning a living...
...maybe boys are naturally violent anyway - ceremonially aggressive. Maybe they just need rites of passage. Once in the '80s, when I spent time in Kenya, I was traveling with a great naturalist/conservationist named David Western. We came upon a Masai orpul - that is, a gathering of six young warriors in the forest, a ritual feast in which they slaughtered one of their precious cows (a rare occasion) and settled down to eating the entire beast, right down to horns and hooves. They had been at it a day or two, and were disgustingly surrounded by gnawed ribs and a boiling...