Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THERE WAS one reservation. Students said that the patients never talked about each other's problems, no matter how close their friendships. "It was not that it was an unwritten law," one boy said. "You just didn't. It was irrelevant. It was the given." People could ask each other about what hospitals they had been in, or how long, but not why. "It would have destroyed a basic trust," another student said. "It would have taken away the acceptance that people need to pull themselves together...
Even her own contributions to the noise level are beyond her control. People, especially female people, deal with the tension caused by having so many together in such close quarters by talking. The only way to get back at them all is to talk at them. Nicely. Everyone must be nice. There are eight girls in these rooms. Patty and Sally, who are nice, Jane and Tina, they're nice. Sandy and Betty and Linda and Mary, also nice. When one of them gets tired of being nice and would like to play a record very loudly and perhaps scream...
Chocolate friendships and romances are both casually groupy. One girl may have two or three close friends who are not necessarily friends with each other. Cliques are not firm or obvious. Similarly, these girls often date many boys without being serious about any. Sometimes, however, a chocolate girl has few or no friendships and she spends most of her waking life on schoolwork...
Limes very seldom have groups of close friends, and never cliques. Instead they travel mostly alone, or with a serious boyfriend. And their traveling often takes the form of gliding. Perhaps a little too thin, some cultivate a mysterious, ethical, or merely composed look. They are most conscious of their sex and often the most beautiful of the girls. They decorate their rooms with taste, and generally have more concern for art and individuality than do their fellow students. And a search for self-expression, for eternal, almost mythic verities, is implied in the adjectives they use to compliment another...
...make something out of that too? And so it goes. In any case, you can be sure that your freshman roommate will call your entire existence into question, and by the end of your freshman year-but definitely not before-you will be well rid of him. Gasp. Close parenthesis...