Word: citadel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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JUST at this critical Point, the Mentor and Chief Ally of the Scribbler's Club, identifying Label sewn over the bright yellow Lining of his turned Coat of Office, conferred with the Membership. The Mentor advised, his suggestive little Beard jiggling, seizure of the Domed Citadel, residence in the City named like the State of the Wise Teachers. From the Crest of Campus Hill, it overlooked a surrounding Plain. And here! exalted this Junior Professor, his little Beard suggesting, here! was a glorious Symbol for their ever-burgeoning Protest and loud Remonstration...
...this pessimistic view has been challenged in a recently published study, "Good Samaritanism: An Underground Phenomenon?" by Psychologists Irving M. and Jane Allyn Piliavin of the University of Pennsylvania and Judith Rodin of Columbia University. Based on experiments conducted by four teams of Columbia students in that grimy citadel of public indifference, the New York City subway system, the study finds that "people do, in fact, help with rather high frequency." The experiments, carried on over a period of 73 days, sought to determine in a realistic setting how a captive audience reacts to a person obviously ill, and another...