Word: rent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wasp power is obscured by the divisions natural to a majority, which keep Wasps from coalescing into the kind of cohesive blocs that other groups have formed. The Republican Party is preeminently Wasp; yet it has been rent for generations by deep-seated disagreements. Norman Mailer characterized the alienated delegates lusting for liberal blood at the 1964 convention. In a typical Mailer caricature, he evoked a "Wasp Mafia where the grapes of wrath were stored. Not for nothing did the white Anglo-Saxon Protestants have a five-year subscription to Reader's Digest and National Geographic, high colonies...
Miss Gill testified before the Council that tenants in Harvard-owned housing have been afraid to complain about neglect, fearing that Harvard would raise the rent or destroy the building. "The men who run these things are strict businessmen," she said...
...poor people, and need low rent housing," Miss Gill said. "Yet Harvard a billion-dollar corporation, does not take into consideration our needs. When I asked Mr. Cutler how much Harvard makes off the building he answered 'We only make $14,000 net profit on the Mount Auburn Building and that isn't much percentage for our investment...
...even in a hurry to nominate a new Chief Justice, although he has frequently criticized the Supreme Court's decisions on police practices and criminal law. Earl Warren's resignation, originally submitted to Johnson last June, now will not take effect until the end of the cur rent court term, probably in six months. Thus the work of the court will not be disrupted...
Because of so much reading matter. The New York Times should pay my rent And furnish me a heated tent...