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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...union personnel will easily be accommodated in jobs; all the service workers are scheduled to return by Monday and none of the non-union workers has been asked to leave. The situation in the libraries is much less cut-and-dried. The university hired 17 non-union workers to fill "essential" library posts and has apparently promised them they will be eligible for full-time jobs after the strike is settled. But the striking workers now view "return to work" conditions as the most important issue in the strike; specifically, they are concerned that the university...
...basic things the child is taught is what its parents learn first and often hold most precious about it: its sex. That moment in which Mrs. and Mr. Jones are told that they have just become proud parents of a ... (fill in the blank) affects significantly their attitudes toward the new baby. And they, in turn, determine an important portion of the baby's relationship to society and its outlook on the world. The baby at birth is destined for "full membership" as a woman or a man, a large part of its socialization at home and in school will...
...patriarch admits to death his incapacity for the love "we," the people he commands, represent. His efforts to fill that void with the solitary vice of power only produced hollow lies, he admits at the last; cardboard constructions which "we," the people of everyday, soon learned to walk around and ignore, leaving him to act alone on the set built of his barren lust...
McCarthy proposed Riesman's name in a speech on Saturday, in which he also named five of his choices to fill cabinet posts, including Boston Mayor Kevin H. White as attorney general...
...game days, the atmosphere is electric for blocks around the park. The dirty Back Bay sidewalks are dappled with souvenir stands boasting the Sox' bright red and navy colors. The shrill cries of peanut and hot dog vendors fill the air. Amidst this street carnival, the fans dodge the traffic and each other as they converge on Fenway, swarming past the hawkers, the tall red brick facade and through the turnstiles...