Word: size
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another factor that helps to explain the level of morale is, we are convinced, the size of the graduate student body. We have a strong impression that dissatisfaction is least in the smaller departments. This is not merely a question of student-faculty ratio. A department of five professors and twenty graduate students is better off from this point of view than a department of thirty professors and one-hundred students, though the ratio is the same. The reason is that a group of twenty can more easily develop a sense of participation and fraternity among its members than...
...understand the size of the creative problems now facing Blood, the new "satire in poor taste" currently trying to make a go of it in Boston. At the moment, Blood's creators have not exactly solved these problems, but they have taken a healthy (or is it crippled?) step toward this...
...friendly seduction, it usually follows a rather elaborate ritual. The first contact is often arranged by investment bankers, who stand to collect fees of up to $1,000,000 for arranging the merger. The potential partners usually meet at a country club or on some other neutral ground. They size each other up stiffly and uneasily; drinks are practically never served. If extreme secrecy is necessary, the top executives travel to out-of-town hotels where they figure nobody will recognize them...
Given a number of people with common goals and common experiences, you get groups--"task-oriented groups," as the Soc. Rel. department would put it. There are few loners backstage in Harvard theatre--after all, it's a cooperative venture. The groups vary in size, elasticity and penetrability...
...SIZE of the stage and the level of polish the lush building demands means large outputs of time and labor for techies. Thus it requires a totally different attitude to work there than in any other theatre around...