Word: collected
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growing awareness in the past few years of the mountains of data and statistics that institutions now collect on citizens has given birth to a widespread, though loosely-organized, "right-to-know" movement. With the advent of widespread use of computers, record-keeping by government, credit agencies and schools has become more efficient and comprehensive and more sinister...
...many beautiful objects selected for the Radcliffe show attest amply to the "discerning eyes" of the collectors represented. But one searches in vain for evidence of the discerning mind behind the educated eye. Who are these women? What does art mean to them? Why do they collect--as an investment, out of love of art, because of avarice or noblesse oblige? All of these questions are raised by the exhibit and nowhere are they answered. The lavish and no doubt expensive catalogue merely reproduces in photographs the objects displayed in the Fogg's galleries. Why? For posterity's sake? Posterity...
...Harvard Employees Organizing Committee yesterday began a drive to collect union membership cards from two-thirds of the 4000 Harvard clerical and technical employees who work outside the Medical Area...
Schroder said the HEOC will continue to collect the pledges through its representatives in every building at Harvard where non-unionized employees who are not in supervisory positions work...
...dynamiters threatened to continue their bombings until the agency forked over $1 million in ransom money. "We have the men and equipment to keep as many towers down as is necessary to force compliance with our demands," the letter warned. "Our intent is to either collect $1 million or to make you people wish to hell we had." The message was signed "J. Hawker"-an apparent reference to the antislavery jayhawkers, who looted and marauded in Kansas, Missouri and other states before and during the Civil...