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...movement to Consist--the impending John F. Kennedy Library Center--is transforming the area. Already a shopping mall is rising next to Holyoke Center, acrylics are replacing brick storefronts, rents are rising out of sight, and soil experts are boring into the Common and MBTA yard. And much more is coming...
...substantial part of the activities" of such an organization may consist of "carrying on propaganda, or otherwise attempting to influence legislation...
Yale's 40-member ping pong team has already been practicing together for four months with a full-time coach. Eli captain David Pardo is leading the organization of a league which he feels Yale can now dominate. Dual competition will consist of nine individual matches of which six will be singles and three doubles. Yale hopes to play its first match against the Crimson within two weeks but no date has been...
That is the gist of Goffman's newest book, Relations in Public (Basic Books; $7.95). Its subject is microsociology, or group behavior on a small scale-as when people pass each other on the street or wait together at supermarket checkout counters. Such encounters, says Goffman, frequently consist of rituals: either "supportive interchanges" like "Hello" or "remedial interchanges" like "Excuse me." In each case, one person provides "a sign of connectedness to another," while the other shows "that the message has been received, that the affirmed relationship actually exists as the performer implies, that the performer has worth...
...group issued a statement deploring all policy decisions, "made in the name of financial expediency, that threaten the functions of resident staff in the Houses," and set up a Resident Tutors Committee which will consist of two representatives from each House...