Word: masters
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Whether they live in a city housing project, a tract development or deep in the piney woods, these Americans are, for the most part, culturally disfranchised. They were raised on the old American popular culture, on the myth of the individual who is the master of his own fate, truckles to no man or institution, and whose possibilities are as limitless as a Great Plains horizon. Now, however, employers, unions, governments regulate their lives. Mortgage obligations and even rising Social Security deductions hem them in. The open road, down which escape always seems possible, has become a featureless eight-lane...
...application letters and resumes. Those whose letters failed to win them advance appointments for interviews at the convention must now press for one, while the happy few who succeeded line up impatiently to learn where their interviews will take place. Candidates' names have to be verified against a master sheet before the room number of the department chairman who is conducting the interview is divulged. "If Yale registered its suite," explains Roy Chustek, who runs the job center, "they'd have people camping out in the hallway, pushing resumes under the door and through the air vents...
Still, they tried. Writes Crick, who with James Watson won his Nobel Prize for elucidating the structure of DNA, the master molecule of life: "We understand how an organism can build molecules, although the largest of them is far too minute for us to see, even with a high-powered microscope; yet we do not understand how it builds a flower or a hand or an eye, all of which are plainly visible to us." Even less is known, Crick notes, about how an animal's nervous system is formed, how the growth of the nerves is directed...
North and South House serve milk and cookies to their residents, usually around 9 or 10 p.m. The hours are determined by the individual houses, Hanna Hastings, Master of North House, said yesterday...
...live folk orgy" featuring local folk musicians and William H. Bossert '59, master of Lowell House, was held yesterday at Lowell House...