Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talk at them. Nicely. Everyone must be nice. There are eight girls in these rooms. Patty and Sally, who are nice, Jane and Tina, they're nice. Sandy and Betty and Linda and Mary, also nice. When one of them gets tired of being nice and would like to play a record very loudly and perhaps scream, she can't. It wouldn't be nice...
...really sure what that is. But much of the talk is out of control, a thing detached from the individuals engaging in it, the meaningless result of universal pressure. As such, the talk itself is distorted. It is jacked up from the level of simple things like intellectual matters to opinions about other people, a level of such complication that talk is helpless...
...probably doesn't like you because...
...first glance; it might appear that the antagonism between Harvard and the rest of Cambridge should have lessened since the 1930's. Harvard no longer buys up massive tracts like Kerry Corners; the total land area of the University has expanded by only one-third since 1939. The old ethnic antagonisms have abated, indeed almost disappeared; Yankee Harvard no longer faces off against Irish Cambridge. Over the years, a series of Cambridge politicians and civic leaders have grown up to bridge...
...ever-building on its strengths and working on areas of weakness. In the late 1950's, for example, the library began collecting Oriental manuscripts, of which it had only a few. "There were opportunities. the prices weren't high. and there wasn't much competition. "Hofer says." It goes like that. We use our money well...