Word: bins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time coal bin and record storage center has become, this fall, the focus of a new College research project. "Unit B" of the University Health Services, using a $420,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health, has begun a program of testing freshmen to measure psychological and sociological changes during their undergraduate years...
John Cage: Indeterminacy (Music by David Tudor; Folkways, 2 LPs). In a search for a "new aspect of form," Composer Cage has glued 90 spasmodically rhythmic anecdotes (on such random subjects as a mushroom exhibition in Paris, a bridge-playing composer in "the loony bin") to the piano and electronic music of Fellow-Composer Tudor. The result is new, all right, and even engaging in spots, but for the most part it will remind the first listeners of a dyspeptic after dinner speaker talking through an electrical storm into a TV set with a faulty tube...
Those old familiar words of Mr. Pacheco's, "No more da car. Da ole Lady bin go Lihue," made tears come to my eyes...
...shoes, Louie Pacheco, 44, operator of a harvesting machine, broke through the campaign workers with the cheerful promise to vote for everybody. "Hey, Louie!" yelled a friend. "See you pan hana [after work]? Plenty feesh at Kapukamoi!" Replied Louie in pidgin English: "No more da car. Da ole lady bin go Lihue today." "I pick you up?" offered the friend. "Hokay!" yelled Louie, as he ducked into the schoolhouse...
...with losing face and in its rigid taboos. As a female emancipation proclamation, the Memoirs will also seem curiously dated to Americans, for Feminist de Beauvoir belongs uncompromisingly to the either-or camp on the marriage v. career question, and apparently consigns most of her sex to the vegetable bin of history. Nonetheless these graciously written memoirs carry distinct appeal in recording the emotional and intellectual birth pangs of a fascinating woman...