Word: alright
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ROOMMATE magnanimously offered to pay the $1.50 student entrance fee on her first visit to the Fogg Museum freshman year. "That's alright, honey," said the woman at the door, smiling kindly, "you're already paying $17,000." And so she was. And so we all are. And yet so many students have never been to the Fogg, let alone the Sackler or the Busch-Reisinger (whose collections temporarily are being housed at the Fogg due to renovations...
...Never Turning Anything in on Time. Alright, I did turn in a few things on time freshman year, but I learned that I work best under unnecessary pressure. The trick, of course, was to do this and not get taken down a few grades for the privilege. It got so bad that I turned in my thesis late (half an hour), not because I had to, but because I wanted to. My finest moment, however, was turning in a 30-page paper three weeks late and three days after the semester ended. Copped...
...came on. He seemed very no-nonsense. "Alright," he said. "You wanna buy some arms? Discount is my middle name...
...blues revival was giving middle-class white kids a cathartic rush by hearing about the troubles of poor Blacks. On another, the revival was disproving Lead-belly's famous statement that "never has a white man had the blues, 'cause nothin' to worry about." The kids may have been "alright," but from Vietnam to the H-bomb, they had plenty to worry about. These broad social issues were not the sort of thing blues singers had sung about in the past. White musicians like Bob Dylan, The Band, and The Rolling Stones added new irony and social critique...
...love as never having to say you're sorry--for handing in a paper late--you are probably in the majority at Harvard. There actually exist a few, alright it's about 3500, students who have not yet found a long-term partner at Harvard for mutual "sharing and caring," let alone for exhilarating erotica. (Cupid is, after all the god of erotic love.) Not surprisingly, most students do not want to admit the sad state they are in and declined to have their names used for this article. Here are a few thoughts from cynics all over the campus...