Word: fold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crooks sees a "three-fold mission" for the Summer School, actually a kind of mission civilatrice for Harvard. First, he says, is the obligation of a university--any university--to be at work as much as possible: "Why shut down this magnificant plant all summer long?" Then there is Harvard's special role as one of the few liberal arts summer schools in the New England region, serving students who could not otherwise go to summer school. And finally there is the desirability of "people from all over the world having at least one Harvard experience...
...concrete and just activity"; 2) a somewhat larger group characterized by "conformist adaptation," who give priority to their own personal interests; and 3) a much larger group whose political behavior is distinctly reserved. Within this latter group, which the author implicitly recognizes as the most significant, a further four-fold distinction of ascending size is made. First, a small group which is clearly politically and ideologically indifferent; second, those who concentrate their activity on their own technical training; third, the skeptics, the cynics, the nihilists; and finally, those who are politically reserved and resigned, but not to the extreme...
...where will you turn? Perhaps to a Cliffie with an absorbant shoulder or you'll make a quick phone call to the familial fold. You can have a long chat with a college chum or get unsolicited advice from your Freshman proctor. All these solutions have their advantages, but no friend in need has the skills of your local shrink...
...accepted back into the fold" 12 of 13 members who were in danger of being dismissed because they attended only three to six of 13 meetings through March...
...understood as part of the "search for intimacy," Cox explained. He attacked what he called the "Playmate theory of sex." "One finds," he said, "that women don't fold as easily as the Playmate...