Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unambitious women, therefore, don't suffer; the burden falls on women like the Institute Scholars who want careers, as well as families. And here the Institute comes in. Since most of the Scholars have to adjust their schedules to husbands and babies, the instigation where they study or work must be flexible. And the Institute is flexible: it allows the Scholars to study and produce, as they would in graduate school, but on a part-time basis, as they could not in graduate school. Provided with the amount of money she needs, each Scholar works out her own budget...
Also it seems that the philosophy behind most of the other stimuli we consciously subject ourselves to is to put us into neutral--to free us from stimulation. We eat food to free us from hunger and to save our bodies from weakness and deficiencies. We adjust the thermostat in our rooms so that we will have to feel neither cold, nor heat. We want to hang in the middle, to reach a stasis in how we feel. This is what we think of as our "natural" condition. From here, we presumably, we can experience anything that might happen...
...spells of paralysis, as the student riots have shown to be possible. Apathy and secession will take care of the rest, until a stump of something once alive is left to vegetate on the endowment or the annual tax subsidy. The change will be gradual enough for everything to adjust to it, and the versity, neither uni nor multi, will survive, in utility a vestige just next to the Electoral College. some will think the two are connected, as the names suggest...
...loudspeaker system was set up opposite Baker Library. Student Association Executive Board members were posted on the campus to convince the disrupting the |Business School campus would not be as worthwhile adjust talking over the issues...
Gradually we left for the cars. One by one, the others filed out. I was the last one left in the cabin, and I was nervous about it. I turned off the lights and started out. I tripped in the snow, in my haste. My eyes did not adjust right away to the night, and now that the cabin was dark I could see nothing. I called to the others, but when they answered I could not determine where their voices came from or how far away they were. I took another couple of steps...