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...Erasmus-like tower. You lean over and look out the window at the little groups of women walking to market and children playing tag, a couple of lovers smiling at one another in the grass, and a frown comes over your face, you shake your head, and, with a slight disdainful grunt, you return to pore over your work...Then, as you are trying to concentrate, you are pushed by someone muttering to himself, "Where the hell are the psychology books?" and you are back in Cambridge, in the Coop, selecting books for the coming semester...
...slight conservative majority is far from homogeneous. Its members are bound together by many traditional values but separated into what could be called the more classical (61%) and more populist (39%) constituencies by the latter group's angry feeling that they have been left out of the American mainstream. Indeed, almost two-thirds of the Americans who qualified as socially resentful are also part of the conservative majority. For purposes of analysis, they were called resentful conservatives...
That night, after watching Nixon's resignation speech on television with his family at home, Ford stepped outside into a slight drizzle to speak to reporters and about 100 cheering neighbors. "This is one of the most difficult and very saddest periods, and one of the saddest incidents I've ever witnessed," he said. It was obvious to all that he meant it. "Let me say that I think that the President of the United States has made one of the greatest personal sacrifices for the country and one of the finest personal decisions on behalf...
...Watts argued, and the members concurred, that the first-year offer alone should be 14%-that is, 11% to keep up with inflation and 3% more as a reward for Bell's productivity gains. If there is a nationwide telephone strike, it would have an immediate, though slight impact on users who would not be able to get telephones installed or repaired...
...attitudes and career plans of Harvard-Radcliffe students over the last 5 years. Although the facts have not yet been released from his most recent poll, Meyer reported very little change between 1969 and 1972 in student attitudes toward political and administrative authority. In fact, the survey indicated a slight move toward the left. Paradoxically, there has been a simultaneous "pre-professional push." Applications to major universities' schools of law and medicine increased almost 50 per cent over the last five years. And at Harvard Medical School the motives were far from altruistic: a recent study showed half the students...