Word: paye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cabot Hall has introduced, a mercenary spirit into Radcliffe dorm obligations by making girls who don't do their bells duty pay those unfortunates who do the work in their place...
Last week the girls in Cabot voted overwhelmingly to institute a fining system--the only one at Radcliffe. If a girl doesn't do her bells or find someone to do them for her, she has to pay $2 an hour for weekday duty and $2.50 an hour for weekends to the substitute the work chairman finds...
Some Cabot girls, however, are not paying for what they miss. The dorm committee is considering asking Radcliffe to put the fines on girls' term bills if they don't pay...
...that, about $30,000. I was only selling 4000, 5000 papers a week. I sold each issue for ten cents. The publication costs were about $4000. I was getting about seven cents a copy, bringing in about $300 and some odd dollars a week, which wasn't enough to pay the rent and pay the girl in the office, and pay the linotype operator that I had working here, and give me a week's pay, and pay the drivers' who were taking out the stuff. I was in the hole at the rate of three or four hundred dollars...
...were not for the "psychological idiom" in which he couches it. Indeed throughout the book, one has an annoying sense that jargon is making the obvious complicated. This problem, of course, is endemic to the psychological approach to social science, and would not be too great a price to pay for a comprehensive account of the Cultural Revolution. If Lifton's is not comprehensive, it probably comes as close as any unitary scheme can. Until China opens up to the West, and maybe for a long time thereafter, art and science will be inseparable in studies of China...