Word: hangouts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Family Doctor. Arnstein, son of an immigrant butcher, has prepared the scores for 42 operas, hundreds of orchestral works, and musicals like Bernstein's West Side Story. Privy to all the inside news in music, he is an amiable raconteur, and his office is a hangout for composers who want to catch up on the latest gossip or get an instant reading on a rival's work. "Any opera with that many tremolos can't be good," Arnie will...
...should either seek student sponsorship to operate in the student-run union building or work through the campus placement service like other employers. But he refused to deal with nonstudents at all, shunned any discussions in which Non-Student Mario Savio, who tends bar at a near-campus student hangout when not agitating on campus, would take part, if only as a silent observer...
...longer harrassed, though they may be ostracized by other white students. Racially mixed groups come into the cafeteria without being hissed, and Negroes use the student union grill without being particularly noticed. Meredith often ate at the cafeteria, but never ventured into the grill, a more informal "hangout" for a number of the close-knit cliques on campus...
Uncle Ho's. In Paris the exiles can gather in any one of some 200 Vietnamese chop-chop houses, ranging from a Communist bistro called Uncle Ho's, to a hangout called the Gathering Place of the Wise Men, which, like the others, reeks with the home flavor of nuoc mam, the fish sauce used on most Vietnamese dishes. More than half the men are married to French women, many hold French citizenship, few seem inclined to return to Asia. "They have their families here and are safe from the horrors of war," says a former Ambassador...
Burning Hot. In a student poolroom hangout on the fringe of the congested urban campus of the University of Southern California, Associate Professor of Business Administration Anthony Athos, a onetime auto-factory worker with "the lowest mechanical aptitude General Motors ever tested," peers over a pitcher of beer and explains that a teacher must have "that divine tension. You've got to be concerned?but not dedicated, which sounds as if you're doing something you think you ought to do. For me?Christ...