Word: arens
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...troubled leisure-wear company has unveiled a series of holiday commercials that compare the supposedly meager gift-giving traditions of other cultures with the loaded-down Christmas excess in the U.S. The spots' self-satisfied tag line: "Aren't you glad you live in America...
...Arrogant?--At the University of Chicago, at least, folks aren't so hypersensitive about the presidential search. Although the school has two curious ties to the search--Chicago President Hanna H. Gray is on the search committee and Chicago Provost Gherard Casper has emerged as a leading candidate--Geoffery Stone, dean of Chicago's law school, insists "There's no effect. Only at Harvard would people think that their search has an effect on other campuses...
Visions of sugar plums aren't the only things dancing in the minds of Harvard students these days, as many say worries about war are putting a damper on their usual holiday cheer...
...fact that most of the food on Deli Day is prefaced by the term "real" says a lot about what we normally eat. "Real" bagels remain round and slightly misshapen because they aren't kept in plastic bags and mass-processed at the Lender's factory. "Real" rye bread is sort of oblong, not square. "Real" cheesecake is a shade of yellow between lemon squares and the Hollandaise they try to serve with brocolli spears...
...Jewish, aren't you?" asked one of my student hosts as we sped along the highway. "Because we have a lot of Jews here. And they sure stick together, those Jews. They say we exclude them, but let me tell you something. They exclude...