Word: fact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this boycott was broken when new-mood, conservative freshmen decided by referendum to elect students to serve on the committee. Administrators jumped at the opportunity to revive--at least on paper--the CRR, and put about ten freshmen on the CRR, even though only two or three are, in fact, supposed to serve according to the original faculty legislation...
...rural public high school or Exeter, may have filled your brain with the kind of knowledge Harvard values, but nothing can really prepare you adequately for the impersonality of academics here. The occasional freshman seminar or informal meeting with a professor can't mitigate the simple fact that you are one of over 6000 students...
None of this would be so painful if it was rip-off plain and simple. The rip-off, however, is a righteous one. Harvard may in fact hate America but it hates this guy a lot more...
...Washington longer than it used to during the swelter season, thus presumably passing more laws, has contributed to bloated Government. One can only speculate that the advent of the supercooled bedroom may be linked to the carnal adventurism associated with the mid-century sexual revolution. Surely it is a fact-if restaurant complaints about raised thermostats are to be believed-that air conditioning induces at least expense-account diners to eat and drink more; if so, it must be credited with adding to the national fat problem...
...spread of air conditioning to the coincidentally rising divorce rate, but every attentive realist must have noticed that even a little window unit can instigate domestic tension and chronic bickering between couples composed of one who likes it on all the time and another who does not. In fact, perhaps surprisingly, not everybody likes air conditioning. The necessarily sealed rooms or buildings make some feel claustrophobic, cut off from the real world. The rush, whir and clatter of cooling units annoys others. There are even a few eccentrics who object to man-made cool simply because they like hot weather...