Word: careers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think she's a wonderfully qualified person," Phyllis Stein, chairman of the search committee and director of Radcliffe Alumnae Career Services, said yesterday...
...very name of the Clash signifies violence. Each of their songs contains a subtly disguised message hopelessly inappropriate for impressionable teens. These British hooligans tell listeners things like "Hate an War--the only things there are today," "Career opportunities are the ones that never knock," "If Adolf Hitler flew in today, they'd send a limousine anyway," and other statements of nihilism and frustration that can only fan the flames of discontent. Their music is loud, crude, fast, and shunned by listeners with taste...
That is the goal of Shelter Founders Pat Hennin, 34, and his wife Patsy, 35. Five years ago, after they built a house (for a friend), they decided to teach others. Pat abandoned his law career, and the Hennins started their school in a $50-a-month classroom. Though the institute now occupies three buildings, the Hennins remain dedicated to simplicity. Says Pat: "The construction business has made building into a mystery by breaking it up into specialties. Carpenters do not know plumbing. Plumbers cannot lay a foundation. We have just drawn it all together to let people...
Runcie admits that his Scottish engineer father had a "profound distrust of parsons." He went to Oxford, earning first-class honors in classics, philosophy and ancient history. He did not decide on a clerical career until his final year. During his years as a chaplain and tutor at Cambridge, he married Rosalind ("Lindy") Turner, an accomplished classical pianist known for spirited opinions ("I can't bear a lot of religious pomp and circumstance"). They have two children. Among Runcie's hobbies: breeding prize pigs...
...recent years, however, more seniors have been visiting the MHS. The predominant malaise of students today is uncertainty," Walters says flatly. Most of the students who use MHS "feel in distress from a choice of purposes--a career problem, the future, self-confidence or a family situation," he explains. Pre-professionalism has clearly had an impact outside of the classroom. In what he labels a society gone back to a "scarcity model," Walters asks, "What does a young person base his self respect...