Word: rest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...implemented as soon as humanly possible to use the other 1100 units presently allocated, for new construction and for acquisition and rehabilitation of existing housing. This means we must all move quickly and effectively than we have been. We must not build more institutional "projects," isolated from the rest of the community, no matter how hard that is to do under restrictive Federal cost and design regulations. We must stop talking about the need for more housing for low-income families, but objecting when a site in our own neighborhood is proposed. The Council and the Authority must respond promptly...
TURKEY LAKE is back with his class, HOME FOR SUMMER is the best of the rest, BRAIN KELLEY could surprise...
Hofer officially retired last year, but he maintain an office in the basement of the Houghton. In it is a cot, covered with a rug--"late 17th or early 18th century Imperial rug"--where he can rest. He has often slept nights there, where it is cool, when the weather outside has been hot. His office is cluttered with pieces of art, papers, photographs, small figures, and chests which he says are "all full of things...
...optation is not in itself evil. But the SDS demands can be met, SDS is exerting pressure for concrete achievements. "Stop squeezing the life our of me" is unanswerable, and its effect ends when the excitement ends. This type of romanticism provides no plateaus where we can stop and rest. If it does not succeed entirely, it will have entirely failed; and the irate alumni will be right--we will have disrupted a great university to lengthen our spring vacation...
Mention this legend of the Summer School to H. Francis Wilkinson, acting director of the school, and you'll first get a measured silence, and then a firm rebuttal to the legend. It's no longer a rest camp, if it ever was," he says. Queried about the percentage of Summer School students who come for relaxation and little else, Wilkinson replies, "There are some, but there are some in Harvard College too." He hastens to point out that, last summer, two-thirds of the summer students received only honors grades...