Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What lies behind this problem is fairly easy to induce. Cambridge has an odd problem for a core city: a lot of people, particularly a lot of people with money, want to live here. The reason, of course, is the presence of two large universities, which draw large numbers of students and, more important, hangers-on ranging from hippies to young professionals, onto the City's housing market. Moreover, the Inner Belt will, in the foreseeable future, displace 1200 to 1500 Cambridge families and the Route 2 extension into North Cambridge a somewhat smaller numbers...
...Regents soon moved to get rid of that irritating limitation. A few weeks after the Marcuse debate, Edwin Pauley, an oil tycoon and Reagan appointee, came up with a proposal. Instead of letting the meddling chancellors control the faculty, the Regents could appoint the teachers themselves and save a lot of needless anxiety about men like Marcuse...
...been spending a lot of time with our confidentiality problem," he said, adding he would "almost welcome" a court test of the government's authority to subpoena such information...
...boys greet each other and the new ones, called "scum," struggle to find their room assignments. Gradually, the focus narrows to a group of three upperclassmen (Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick) who are restless, cynical and chafing under the discipline of the house whips. They spend a lot of their time sneaking swigs of vodka and planning romantic acts of rebellion. After a particularly strenuous caning by the head whip, the three take a blood oath: "Death to the oppressor!" They turn a school military exercise into a rout by threatening to bayonet an officer, and later sabotage...
...tough situation. Everyone has a few friends, good friends, but they keep each other up all night talking about problems that are the same as everyone else's. There's a lot of repetition, a lot of things people do despite themselves. Certain aspects of life, such as male-female relationships, are made artificial. People are much more anxious than they have to be. Living in an institution makes people put their time and interests in compartments, and nowhere is this more true than in the rules about male visitors...