Word: closer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much closer vote, of 26-18, that total amnesty be granted to the University Hall occupiers...
...humorist contemporaries often vibrate with a febrile, apocalyptic rage, seeming to feel that America has the market cornered on greed and hypocrisy. Vonnegut takes a longer view. Though he has an old-fashioned Populist's distrust of the rich and powerful manipulators of society, Vonnegut's is closer kin to Twain than Kafka. Deeply pessimistic about the world, he is rarely depressed by it. Part of him, at least, would contemplate even the story of the apocalypse as some sort of cautionary tall tale...
Still, this night had gone quicker than the previous one--or at least differently. The change in the weather, the fact that no one would have to spend the night in the cabin, the speed with which we moved through the shooting schedule--all these things made Saturday night closer to a working experience, and far removed from the ghosts that seemed to have taken over the night before...
...stability. Confrontations may have radicalized blacks, but they have also deprived black children of weeks an months of schooling. The King school in Roxbury was closed down for most of November and December after rioting students repeatedly provoked police occupation of their school. New York City has never been closer to anarchy than it was during last fall's teacher strike, and white reaction to the strike seems likely to doom meaningful action in the New York legislature on the community control question. The combined votes of Nixon and Wallace in the last election speak for themselves...
...Grad student morale--the report devoted a section of the low morale of graduate students and suggested the creation of a Graduate Student Center and closer student-Faculty contact to boost morale...