Word: heated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Curtis said carpeting a building like Lamont would reduce "the liveliness" of the building's interior, adding that "noise will be 'swallowed up' by the carpeting and dissipated in the form of heat...
They don't come expecting exotic sights. Once you've made one loop around the small island where the ducks live, there's nothing too exciting to see. Instead, the "swanboat experience" is passive. Sit on the park benches bolted to these flat-bottomed tubs, let the sun heat you shoulder-blades, and listen to the subdued whir of the propellers...
...Pipes's "enchanted world" dissolved in the heat of the strike and its aftermath, those faculty members who sought such a world did not disappear with it. Some former members of the caucus have retired; others have died. But ten years later, the majority continue to teach, no longer members of a faction, but unchanged in their assessment of the legacy of 1969. Lost scholarship, student-faculty distrust, enmities within the Faculty--the conservatives regard these as the long-term ill effects. The long-term lesson, as May puts it, is the realization that "nearly all issues can be discussed...
...heat is by no means gone, of course. Outside the awards ceremonies, a remnant group of Viet Nam Veterans Against the War shouted protests about The Deer Hunter, which in style and message is a world away from Coming Home. The vets echoed the criticism of many old antiwar activists, who regard Cimino's cartoon treatment of the Vietnamese (played in the movie, incidentally, by Thais) as screaming sadists, much given to atrocity. Fonda called The Deer Hunter "a racist, Pentagon version of the war" -a judgment she reached without having seen the movie. Gloria Emerson, who covered...
Recruitment is the issue which has generated the most heat recently. A minority of universities all over the country are starting to take action to control what they see as unacceptable practices on campus after a heavily-censored passage in the Church Committee's report revealed in 1976 that "American academics are now being used for such operational purposes as making introductions for intelligence purposes." It took more than a year before President Bok issued his guidelines for the conduct of academics on campus. Bok asks all recruiters to be public and to gain permission of the individual considered...