Word: knit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kudos to TIME for naming the New Frontiersman as Man of the Year. His prodigious, close-knit family from Caroline to Joe, his self-confidence, his ailing back, his Peace Corps, the Honcyfitz, Hyannisport, his struggle with the Syth Congress, and his many vigorous bouts with his alliterative foe in the Kremlin have dominated the 1961 news...
...remarkably well-with problems that grownups never knew. "When I went to school here," recalls History Teacher Schuyler Royce of Andover's Phillips Academy, "the only question was which college you would take your white shoes to. When I got out in 1941, all I needed was a knit tie, a button-down shirt and Daddy's money to get into any college I wanted. These boys know they can't write their own ticket. They're so much more aware...
Pusey told alumni in June, "The notion that any department at Harvard is a tight-knit little group trying to impose a point of view seems to me utterly fantastic. I am confident I know these departments as well as anyone outside them...
According to agents of the K.G.B. (Committee for State Security, or secret police), the textile operation had flourished since 1955, when Comrades Gazenfranz and Appelbaum arrived in Frunze, capital of Soviet Central Asia's Kirghiz Republic, with a proposition for the director of the state-owned knit-goods mill. Instead of producing sweaters, they suggested, why not overcome the drastic shortage of curtain lace, a commodity highly prized both as a status symbol and as the only way to secure privacy in a land without window shades or blinds. The trio promptly set to work importing machinery and bribing...
...other reform was the consolidation of the 15 freshman dorms into five units, each under a senior adviser and his staff of advisers. The old loose supervision of the two assistant deans is gone; in its place are five more closely knit bodies whose main function is advising. Where the whole freshman advising staff used to meet once at the beginning of the year, the unit staffs are now holding monthly meetings...