Word: arens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there may be a lot of things wrong with Smith, but it is hard to see why girls between the ages of 18 and 21 aren't supposed to want to get married. (And why should a transfer student and a girl from Brooklyn College who may well envy that hopeless middle class be quoted as authorities.) Boroff has taken what may have begun as a reasonable contention, and distorted it into an irrational cavil. The time is not yet upon us when marriage and the bearing of children are considered ignoble goals. Boroff himself admits that "Smith alumnae...
...final report, Bender spoke out against "academic elitism," calling for a Harvard with some students "who aren't brilliant or leaders, who are just plain, ordinary, decent, uncomplicated human beings . . . to provide a human scale in this community of supermen...
Some of her choice observations: "Aren't you going to ask me how I like America?... It's nicer than I thought it would be. You get the wrong impression meeting Americans who go to Europe. They don't behave as nicely as they do here...
...patrons of Harvard's own jazz emporium. From now on, the Club's curtains will be thrown back daily at 10 a.m., the lights will be turned on, and devotees will be subjected to the awful truth that 47's wall are white, not black, that there aren't really any rates scurrying about, and that the romance of dirt and darkness is all an illusion--there is actually a certain repelling sterility about the place...
...leaders-British Hoover and Hotpoint-have so much capital behind them that we couldn't move much farther.") In his new heater specialty, however, he faces virtually no effective competition. And some time in the future he plans to bring out a $118 dishwasher. "But the British aren't ready for this yet," he cautions. "It's too modern...