Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ideological, in which we had such faith, have their limits, and that we may have reached those limits and are being left with only the fragments of our hopes. We are closing not only a century but also a millennium, and the accumulated force of that realization heightens a certain apolcalyptic impulse, a febrile fatigue. As if to accommodate this spirit and contain it, the country seems to want to settle only for a credible competence in its education, its government, its means of pleasure, its craftsmanship. It should never want less, but it ought to aspire to more...
ALTHOUGH the new Student Assembly has met only a few times, certain characteristics of the body are becoming readily apparent. Most noticeably, its caution. The reasons for this caution vary, but many representatives say it stems from a fear that the assembly will embarrass itself by trying to do too much, too soon. Representatives say they want to avoid the predicament President Carter found himself in after a year in office, having initiated a dozen reforms while having completed few; they want to learn their way around the University bureaucracy, carefully investigate what kind of substantive reforms the assembly...
...feel compelled to behave in a certain way with them," another said, "but the threat of rejection is still there and you're a little nervous. But they just try to have fun with you. Once you're in, you definitely feel like an equal...
...partying lasts for six weeks, and is followed by a "moratorium" on punching activity. The selections are made. "It's simply not true that they don't punch or won't accept people from a certain background--that's just not true anymore. They won't exclude anyone they like," a punchee said...
...club members feel a student won't "fit in" they won't elect him. Furthermore, a candidate can be shut out by "blackballing"--when any one club member adamantly opposes a certain student's election...