Word: oktoberfest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most Harvard students don't look forward to rainy, cold Sundays in October. This Sunday was different. The twentieth annual Oktoberfest descended on Harvard Square, bringing with it arts and crafts vendors, street musicians, food, beer and rides...
...Kopperschmidts have played their mixture of traditional German songs, polkas and American favorites like "It's a Small World" at Oktoberfest for three years, said Manager George M. Melikian...
...Oktoberfest began in 1978 as a small beer bash. It has since expanded beyond its German roots, with Tibetan, Indian and Chinese food and international musical acts...
About 50,000 people crowded Harvard and Brattle squares Sunday afternoon for the food, shopping and entertainment of the squares' annual Oktoberfest street fair...
Recalling his German roots, Offenbach combines Oktoberfest-inspired scenes of tavern life and male-bonding-over-beer with the equally Teutonic theme of sensitive young men pining over that special Fraulein. (Think Goethe.) In this opera, the eponymous character Hoffmann (Jerry Shuman) dreams of not just one Fraulein, but a trinity of them who together form that elusive ideal--the perfect woman...