Word: maying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Over half the seniors last May planned immediate graduate study, while 64 percent expected it eventually. Military service figured imminently in the prospects of one man in five, while one out of seven intended to start working soon after graduation...
...Independents, on the other hand, not required by their supporters to present detailed stands on such issues, come into the council without any such proposals--without, in fact, any clear idea of how to vote on them. Thus, when a CCA-initiated proposal comes up for action, the Independents may vote against it because some special-interest group has requested opposition or just because they are suspicious of any sort of CCA proposal which seems to have no origin in popular demand...
...Cambridge voters, it must be admitted, demand progress; most like conditions the way they are, or feel that political action can do nothing positive and may make everything more difficult. Politicians, sensitive to this sentiment, oppose actions with uncertain social effects. If there is no public outcry for Urban Renewal, they think, why should we risk our future by agreeing to tear down slum dwellings? After all, voters live there...
Similiarly, the seminars are not intended to meet specific needs but are scheduled as interesting topics and speakers become available. Sessions within a given year may include Joseph Korbel on The Weimar Republic documents, Michael Petrovics on Historical Writing in Communist Yugoslavia, E.H. Carr on Classes and Party under NEP, Mark Slonim on Recent Developments in Soviet Literature, and a panel discussion on recent trips to the Soviet Union. The field which the Center covers, properly speaking, is immense: the staff tries simply to center local activity, and not to co-ordinate it under any general plan. The most recent...
...This company hires a regular chamber orchestra to play for its workers, as a regular part of their employee public relations." As attractive as this position may have seemed, he turned it down to accept his present dual job of conducting the HRO and teaching a graduate course...