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Instead of screaming there is eating. The typical freshman gains fifteen pounds in her first year of dorm life. Girls coming home after dates roam the kitchens looking for snacks. People eat ravenously at dinner as they discuss how fat they are getting and how bad the food is. By over-eating people repeat the vicious circle operating in all parts of dorm life: poor conditions cause strains which are temporarily relieved by aggravating the conditions...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: Radcliffe Dorms Overwhelm Girls | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

...really hear the actors sometimes as they roam around freely in this open space, and you can't see them sometimes because your view is blocked by the pillars of the bare structure of the building, but all this interference just helps to reinforce the audience's feeling of being eavesdroppers on the intense interaction on stage...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: Poor Bitos | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...John's command they all stood up. "Just let your eyes roam around the circle," John said. "Don't be embarrassed, but notice where your eyes want to stop and look; notice where they want to speed up and move on. Look at each other. Look at yourselves...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Into the Center of the Circle | 2/13/1969 | See Source »

...capable scientists and published in the respectable British journal, New Scientist. Thus it was hard to scoff last week at the latest monster tale. This time, after centuries of myth, speculation and hoax, there was apparently scientific evidence that some kind of large creature-or creatures-may indeed roam the depths of Loch Ness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marine Biology: Clue to the Loch Ness Monster | 12/27/1968 | See Source »

Besides its ethnic and racial tensions, the precinct is also a hunting grounds for muggers, who roam its subways, tenements and littered alleyways. Compounding the problem are the hippies, who have taken over the East Village area. There are also scores of "plastic (artificial) hippies," who come only on weekends or during school vacations and then go back home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Police: Fink's Peace | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

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