Word: allowence
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...virtually bald, "as befits my intellectual proclivities," but sported a "rakish goatee, a vanity I allow myself because I've been told the carrot color enhances my olive complexion. Addicted to loud sports shirts he despised formalities and shunned pretensions. "Just call me God," he told his subjects in heaven. At the same time, he was rather touchy about Christmas. "Nobody, I notice, ever makes a fuss over my birthday," he once complained in his diary...
...library. I would look at the lights in the windows and think to myself: behind those windows are people?real, live, human, fleshy, thinking, feeling, loving, despairing people. I am out here and they are in there. They will never come out here to me, and they would never allow me to come inside to them." McGuire punched through his "academic bag" last December. "I suddenly realized," he explains, "that I had not made a single friend in four years." He broke through by taking "sensitivity training" courses at Berkeley's Newman :iub Center and California's Esalen Institute...
Dean Ford said yesterday that Trottenberg's arrangement with the Ford Foundation will allow him to come back one day each week to Cambridge "so I don't anticipate any difficulty in the transition...
...Pass-fail. All students, including freshmen, will be allowed to designate one of their four required courses pass-fail. Individual instructors will decide whether students will be allowed to take their particular courses pass-fail. Many Harvard departments, however, have decided not to allow courses taken pass-fail to count toward concentration requirements. The major rationale for the plan had been that its existence would encourage students to take courses outside their majors and personal spheres of competence...
...that kind of picketing that is supposed to be peaceful when it is often in fact coercive. My general attitude is that committees should be supported unless they are clearly wrong, and perhaps especially so with student-faculty committees with an inchoate mandate. Hence I was willing to allow a trial of that committee's proposals, even though I found all but the first distasteful...