Word: shading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...open spaces give back an atmosphere that makes this a boom with a difference. Uniquely, the movers and shakers share a sense of self-sufficiency (though they live at the mercy of transcontinental railroads and highways), of well-being (though summer temperatures rise to 120° in the shade), of boundless confidence that if the desert can be turned into a thriving oasis nothing in the world is impossible (though they are still pressed by the desert's ancient problem: water...
...addition to undergraduate and graduate students representing every shade of political opinion, the organization presently has seven faculty members. They include David Riesman '31, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences; Clark Byse, Professor of Law; George Wald, professor of Biology; Paul L. Lehmann, Florence Corliss Lamont Professor of Divinity; Rupert Emerson '22, professor of Government; Robert Ulich, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education; and Paul E. Sigmund, Jr., instructor in Government...
...Bums. Each weekend the Schaeffers are overrun by a crowd of young men and women mostly from the universities-painters, writers, actors, singers, dancers and beatniks-professing every shade of belief and disbelief. There are existentialists and Catholics, Protestants, Jews and left-wing atheists; the 20-odd guests this week include an Oxford don, an engineer from El Salvador, a ballet dancer and an opera singer. The one thing they have in common is that they are intellectuals. And the European intellectual is the single object of the Schaeffers' mission in the mountains...