Word: parlor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Culture of Second and Third Generation Soviet Jews--Mark Kuchment, research fellow at the Russian Research Center, Phillips Brooks House parlor...
...deep on the kibbutz that not even the extreme crisis of war can induce women to work in production." Instead, women are cozily content with minor roles and worry a great deal about their looks. "There is hardly a kibbutz that does not have a beauty parlor-an abomination and unforgivable bourgeois luxury in the old days," says Hazleton. "The fight of kibbutz women is against wrinkles, not against discrimination...
Fisher emphasizes that he is not teaching pure conflict-solving theory, but a theory of how to deal actively with international problems. "In most courses students come in, sit down, and say 'Do it to me, teach me,' like it was a massage parlor," he says. "Here they have to take an active role, and that requires a lot more concentration and effort...
...Freshman Council voted overwhelmingly to co-sponsor an Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning (OCS-OCL) workshop on careers and concentrations last night at a meeting in Parlor B of the Freshman Union...
Upstairs in the small meeting rooms, the M.L.A.'s traditional intellectual business goes on pretty much as usual, with over 700 sessions devoted to topics both arcane and trendy. In Parlor B of Palmer House, for instance, an attentive, largely gray-haired, gray-suited audience listens to William Youngren of Boston College expound on "Dr. Johnson, Joseph Wharton and a 'Theory of Particularity.' " In another, a panel of women professors bears down on "Sexism and Racism in Shakespeare" to an overwhelmingly female audience. But concern for the tremendous Ph.D. glut has invaded even these rarefied environs...