Word: bindings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THESE TOKEN ATTEMPTS at interaction with the world outside the scientific enclave serendipitously serve to bind the members of the Observatory together. The colloquia and tennis are among the few common rituals in this intensely pluralistic society. The Observatory buildings mark the intersection of an almost infinite number of lines of research. But there is little communication between them; each fraternity keeps to itself. Research projects are conceived and funded separately, and teams work as closed units. A group will have more contact with people doing similar work in Arizona, or the USSR, than it will with a group doing...
...over there depend on us for jobs, money and food, "says a Highlands polo player, pointing to the sprawling African townships of Highfield and Harare eight miles outside Salisbury. "They know that if they start something, well leave and the country will collapse. They'll be in a bind without us, and the smart ones know better than to cause trouble...
...Pusey '28 could easily tap great fortunes for large' scale development. But "Harvard's ability to call on wealthy alumni is rapidly nearing an end" one University fundraiser says, and Treasurer George Putnam Jr. '49 now concedes that Harvard currently faces "the hard realities of an acute financial bind where there now exists a need for hard choices...
Peterson can readily reel off a list of programs and parts of the University that are most acutely hit by the financial bind...
...technical discussions were reserved for English. His school, like that of every elite student I talked to, made a practise of sending its graduates out of the country; Rahman says that out of around 40 graduates 25 went abroad his year--although most went to Oxbridge (colonial ties still bind), not the U.S. Unlike the Southeast Asian student, Rahman says the USIA was not particularly encouraging about his chances. Right now he is just down the road from an old schoolboy...