Word: closets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never questions his need to feel masterful; she does her best to feed it. Nor does she mind being categorized by him as flighty and irresponsible, deficient in the basic equipment of level-headed logic with which men run her world. Her entire existence is cramped in a closet to which Torvald holds a jealous key. But Nora considers herself lucky to be so taken care...
...then a closet conservative, replied...
...Keith Davis, a professor of management at Arizona State University, who has been studying office and factory rumors for 20 years. "With the rapidity of a burning powder train," Davis asserts, "information flows out of the woodwork, past the manager's door and the janitor's mop closet, through steel walls or construction-glass partitions." Moreover, "well over three-fourths" of company rumors are accurate...
...they concurred on the urgency of answering these questions. At least they did so verbally. In the end, however, the controversy produced no more than a few sadly vapid conversations between students and administrators. The unanswered questions at the heart of the problem were hardly brought out of the closet, and remain unanswered, which could lead to further disruptions when the plan comes up for revision next Fall...
...caught receiving "Notes from a Lady at a Dinner Party," a young architect has to resort to the most difficult assortment of social acrobatics in accepting and reading the notes his hostess keeps slipping into his pocket. Their unusual correspondence culminates in a fumbling rendezvous in a closet. Were they to make contact, however, were they to touch each other even briefly in the throes of a clandestine relationship, they would break the rules of Malamud's game of Choose-Your-Own-Island. Instead, the architect realizes that his hostess is playing an empty, self-deceptive game...