Word: halls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tomboy and allowed to play second base, a girl has traditionally been subjected to heavy social pressure to withdraw from athletics. "Sports was the laboratory where they turned boys into men," says Penn State Psychologist Dr. Dorothy Harris. "As for girls, they were supposed to stand out in the hall, quaking in their tennis shoes. The penalty for daring to take part was to be labeled unfeminine, a social deviant. What is considered healthy psychological development in a man?aggressiveness, independence, ambition, courage, competitiveness?was viewed as unhealthy in a woman. Yet it is precisely those qualities that are found...
...City hall is filled with gloom...
...council began considering cutbacks in spending and new sources of revenue three months ago. While some funds should be forthcoming from the state surplus, Ovrom based his new budget on the assumption that Monrovia would have to go it alone. Accordingly, many of the townspeople believe - understandably - that city hall is crying wolf. Concedes Ovrom: "Sure, a couple programs we cut may be restored, but we just can't count on much...
...long time, no one listened. Undaunted, Jarvis played high school auditoriums, Holiday Inn lunches, civic luncheons, and he was lucky if a dozen people went to hear him. At city hall, he was regarded as a persistent pest who showed up at every tax meeting, drowning out the civilized monologues of his opponents with his battering-ram attacks. "We never knew whether he was a messiah or a maniac," says an aide to one of the supervisors. "He was surly, arrogant and when the mikes were turned off, he just raised his voice so that you never knew the microphone...
There is no Mick Jagger swagger to Glass, onstage or off. He evades questions about his private life. At Carnegie Hall, he appeared in blue jeans and seemed embarrassed by the applause. "I love it when people cheer, but I never know what to do," says Glass. His ensemble has no polish and even bumbles its bows, but Glass feels that the best act is no act. "I don't want to kowtow to popular culture - break my instruments onstage...