Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movement idea was based on the theory that poor people had been left out of American pluralism. They lacked the resources to compete as an interest group in the system so, economically and socially they were left...
Flying in an Ecuadoran Air Force plane, the group--which is retracing Charles Darwin's epic voyage in the Beagle over 130 years ago--spent two hours circling the volcano...
...first arriving in Quito, the capital of Ecuador and a seven-hour trip from here, the group discovered that it might have trouble obtaining passage to the Galapagos at the right time and at the right price. At one point, Sulloway said, it appeared they might have to return to Ecuador in December because the Summer schedule, including stops all around the continent, was too tight for an extended wait to get to the islands...
...winter" experience is the sense of fraternity and superiority which comes from the College's unmatched exclusiveness. Harvard College accepts 1200 students from over 7000 applicants; Radcliffe's ratio is similar. Justifiably or not, it does something to an adolescent's psyche to know he is one of this group, even though he knows the group was chosen through an elaborate, only partly meritocratic, admissions process...
...rigidly run than the academic year is: it has strict rules against men visiting girls' rooms and vice versa, although this year for the first time visitors will be permitted in certain common rooms. Women in dorms have early curfews. There is a social director to plan and sponsor group activities, something which wouldn't make sense for the fragmented Harvard community during the year. Many of these changes are necessary because of the nature of a summer school. In any case, they make Harvard a different place during the summer...