Word: maintained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place is full of jaunty poltergeists. Whenever the phone rings, the TV set changes channels. There are only two books in sight: Franny and Zooey and How to Achieve and Maintain Complete Sexual Happiness in Marriage. Two dozen gardenias are delivered to the apartment each week. They float in an urn in the kitchen, a salad bowl in the dining room, a champagne glass in the bathroom, and a wooden bucket beside her bed. "A gardenia is like a free spirit," she says. "Its fragrance cannot be captured. It's like it doesn't want to be tied...
Even religion, which the authors maintain will continue to separate ethnic groups, will be less divisive as ecumenicism becomes more catholic. I am convinced that political conflict, centering on civil rights and poverty, will develop as the major source of group identification (in New York City and the nation), joining the Irish and Italians wth those already part of the American mainstream, dividing the Jews, and providing Negroes and Puerto Ricans a stronger sense of community. Although the melting pot, as Glazer and Moynihan point out, doe not melt away conflict and produce uniformity, it does continually recast the nature...
Harvard Square can be either a wasteland or a garden of Eden for those in search of fashion. Those who decide what to put out on the shelves for sale maintain they couldn't care less what Paris decrees, and a continuity prevails here from season to season. Nevertheless, this year as usual there are subtle changes. A recent looking spree corroborated this. It also confirmed the suspicion that the Square stocks much of the same trite, conservative clothing available everywhere, (though at prices often higher than any other place...
...Gilbert had been chairman of the Board since 1958 and served as a trustee for many years before that. Although she lives in Dover, she plans to maintain a room in the Alumni House where she will be available to undergraduates...
Although Sayre and his supporters maintain that the "publish-or-perish" question is the main issue, the college's action is also being contested on legal grounds. The argument revolves around the interpretation of the teuure rules of Tufts and of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP...