Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feel like misbehaving, there is always the show. On weekend evenings at seven, dozens of fresh-young things with fresh lipstick are escorted into the dining halls. Here the grand art of judging by appearances approaches perfection. Several steps inside the door, every girl has revealed to the voluble connoisseurs whether she is wearing a girdle, and some virtuosos can tell you the brand name. Half a dozen steps further, and she has popped in and out of bed with every man in the room, and even the finicky ones are experimentally tipping their heads sideways. a few steps further...
...most memorable illustrations came at a party last fall, following the Yale game. Carroll F. (Stan) Miles, Dunster senior tutor, was engaged in a lengthy defense of St. Thomas when he was suddenly interrupted by raucous Eli taunts from outside. Retaliation was swift and sure. Miles bolted for the door, threw the first snowball,--and connected...
This distribution of undergraduate interest has the additional effect of preventing Eliot from becoming an anonymous, amorphous mass. Its members all have their own circles of friends, but there is no pressure on making a close friend of a next-door neighbor merely because of his contiguity or saying hello to someone from tutorial merely because he is one's tutorial...
Flailing at Nixon from Eveleth, Minn., Democrat Adlai Stevenson last week echoed a familiar, false criticism of U.S. capitalism, namely, that it feeds on disaster and thrives on war. Said Stevenson: "When the President seemed to reopen the door for Richard, I heard on the radio that the stock market reacted to Vice President Nixon's improved political fortunes by going up a few points. I don't, as I say, know exactly what this means- but I do recall that the market normally rises in the face of a declaration of war or other national calamity...
...many of their wives, Sociologists W. Lloyd Warner and James C. Abegglen reported in the current Harvard Business Review: "A laborer's son who marries the boss's daughter will land in a top management spot only two months sooner than if he married the girl next door. The farmer's son is much worse off: he can get to the top in 24.5 years by marrying a farmer's daughter, but it would take him 29.4 years if he married into money...