Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hall after the occupation cost Harvard $10,200 for labor. Cleaning up after the mill-in April 21 added another $1100 to the bill. He said these figures represented a "partial compilation" and did not include other expenses such as the cost of repairing ripped upholstery in the Faculty room...
Later, in another room, Miss Bas Cohain began her presentation by reading a poem by Cummings. She then showed slides of paintings by Klee, Modigliani, Pollock, and various other modern artists, introducing them by saying simply that she liked them. The women in the audience sat silently in the dark, some smiling, some bewildered but receptive. Miss Bas-Cohain had said that she preferred not to explain what she was doing. She wanted to let the slides and the exhibit speak for themselves...
...birth control, and abortion), the discussion end of these group sessions often look like prayer meetings. Girls sit quietly for two hours, several always furiously concentrating on their knitting, others equally interested in the floor. When Graham asks questions--as he persists in doing--they hang silently around the room. Occasionally someone will whisper a reluctant answer...
...Residence Office makes a great point of anonymity for the girls who want to see him. Those who seek appointments call the Residence Office and arrange a time to meet him, without leaving a name. At that time, they are expected to show up outside the room in Hilles Library that Graham uses for his office. He says that most girls usually keep their appointments. He has about 20 individual one-hour appointments on his weekends here. "I almost always fit everyone in just barely," he says...
...this tireless study sprint. First off, you become an incredible anal compulsive. If you ever wondered what this is like, you can find out. There's nothing particularly "bad" or annoying about being an anal compulsive; you, as one, just demand tidiness. You can be typing in your room and suddenly become aware that you are tremendously irritated by something about the room. You're ill-at-ease until you spot the bedspread. After you make the bed and smooth it flat, writing is much more relaxed. You also, it seems, really like to excrete in both the two natural...