Word: knit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...here." He attributes much of this to the reorganization of the church here several years ago, which sent some of his close Mormon friends to other wards. While the University branch is "very, very friendly" and more open than Harvard itself, Ledesma says, its members are not as tightly knit as those in the Calexico ward. "When you sit down with others, that is where you actually learn. But when you don't feel comfortable, then you're not learning as much," he says. Feeling estranged, Ledesma has found it hard to raise the will power to go to church...
P.L.O. strength has been further sapped by disunity within its own ranks. Formed in 1964 as an umbrella organization of six fedayeen groups, the P.L.O. has always been loose-knit and ideologically divided. In the past year internal squabbles have intensified. On the one side are the relative moderates: Arafat's Fatah (6,700 members of whom some 2,000 are active fighters) and Syrian-backed Saiqa (about 2,000 members, including 1,000 fighters). Opposing them are such "rejection front" groups as George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (estimated membership...
...daughter Amy, who attends a school back in Plains where she learns her daily lessons in a classroom with more black than white students from a black teacher. He greeted lead guitarist Betts with an earthy, "Goddam, how are you, man." Then Carter admired the red-and-white-knit-baseball-jersey-type shirt that TV hipster Geraldo Rivera was sporting--it read, "Win, Lose or Draw...The Allman Brothers-Jimmy Carter Benefit Concert...
...tell you," Jim Gammil '75 said, pulling up the sleeves of his "Win, Lose or Draw" knit shirt and speaking with a touch of nervousness from his seat in the Royal Roost, insulated against the amplified roar of "Elizabeth Reed," "I didn't think I was going to work for a candidate--I thought I'd work for the Democratic National Committee again this year. But when Jimmy came to Kirkland House last spring, we ended up putting him up for the night. He slept on our fold-down couch. I spent two days with him. And I was sold...
...START on this project, Unger devotes the last chapter of Knowledge and Politics to a "theory of organic groups." He sketches a society of small, democratically-run communes. They are close-knit enough so that everyone knows the other members and has a form of "political love" for them, relating to them not in their work roles but as individuals. The inhabitants have lost all sense of pure self-interest and think only of the interests of the commune...