Word: nesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once the graduate students arrive in Cambridge, however, they encounter innumerable difficulties. Three seem particularly severe: the housing problem, the unfamiliar academic system, and the retention of their "foreign-ness...
Housing and academic difficulties both contribute to the third problem--that of "foreign-ness." By the end of their stay here, many foreign students still feel isolated and culturally segregated. Many students blame American insensitivity for this feeling. They claim that nothing is more irritating than being asked: "How do you like America?" They seek not superficial cordiality but a few genuine American companions with whom they can discuss the very problems of adjustment which housing and academic tensions create. Of the many students encountered by the Reverend Reginald Smart of the International Ministry, "not more than one quarter have...
...Untouchables (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Even non-Ness fans may get a chill out of "Man in the Cooler," with J. D. Cannon and Salome Jens, directed by Ida Lupino...
Shell homes were launched 17 years ago by an enterprising young truck driver named Jim Walter, who went into busi ness with $600 borrowed from his father. The idea had great appeal to returning servicemen, who did not yet have it made and were handy with their hands. By 1961, shell firms accounted for 8% of the one-family housing market and had be come one of Wall Street's bets on the future. But fast-buck builders swarmed in, competition stiffened, and many firms began putting up frames with little regard for quality or adequate financing...
...girl--there and on the South Side and in Roxbury. The "liberal" white man worries, abstractly, about certain phrases. He worries about "equality of education, of housing." He worries about desegregation in some far off place. All this sounds good. But I wish he would wonder what "Negro-ness" is like in the system. My own experience with "life" has made me real sensitive to him. If I don't trust him, personally, like a buddy any offense strikes me as a racial slight. When he pushes me aside to get a seat on the train, I think he pushes...