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...white columns of Colonial's porch. The door swings open and you and your group (throughout Bicker, you move in a group of three or four--you are judged, accepted, and perhaps rejected collectively) are swept into the dazzling warm uproar inside. You feel the soft depth of the rug beneath your feet and can see a bright, glittering, well-groomed haze all around you. Up the grand stairway, lined with upperclassmen clapping and cheering, until you reach the top where beaming and blushing abashedly you sign your name and receive the dark blue and red and yellow and green...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100 Per Cent on Prospect St. | 4/21/1981 | See Source »

...University's and Faculty's affirmative action offices, which must now undertake the investigation of Skocpol's sex discrimination charge, pursue the issue vigorously. Students and junior and senior Faculty members must watch carefully to make sure the serious question of sex bias is not swept under the bureaucratic rug...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skocpol's Reprieve | 4/21/1981 | See Source »

...systematic and honest employment policy through a union contract would be the first steps toward more secure working conditions and higher morale. As important, perhaps, could be the pride and conviction that union membership often entails. Workers would no longer need to sweep their grievances under a rug for fear of embarrassment and hassles from management. Instead, a voice would exist to address the preferences of all workers...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: Stepping Into the Past | 3/19/1981 | See Source »

...insight on the man and particularly his mode of recharging. No one need ever worry about the inner calm of a man who cherishes such a retreat for himself. But why did Mayor Koch appear in PEOPLE astride the camel with Reagan's living-room rug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 26, 1981 | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

...episode" and "continues firmly to support" affirmative action as "inadequate", according to Jane Bock. Jackson, too, is dissatisfied with Bock's response: "No matter how sorry he is, the damage is done, and the lives of minorities have been dramatically affected. He (Bok) can't sweep it under the rug...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: A Common Burden | 12/5/1980 | See Source »

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