Word: socializer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...living on welfare ... If a person freely chooses leisure, he should not expect the productive working force to pay for it." I am going to voluntarily choose leisure next spring because there are other things I want to do, but it will be paid for by my money, the Social Security salary deductions I have been paying since the program started in the 1930s. How dare...
Kennedy also remains somewhat aloof from his Senate staffers. He almost never goes out with them on social occasions and rarely gets involved in personnel problems. He has a brisk approach to subordinates that he may have inherited from his father. He often tells his staff how the patriarch would have handled a problem. Like Joseph Kennedy, the Senator rarely hands out compliments or credit but is quick to assess blame when something goes wrong. Once he angrily dressed down an aide for not informing his mother that he was going to appear on a TV interview show. After...
...social structure throughout the '60s remained rigid, with few informal activities allowing men and women to interact, Nancy L. Rosenblum '69 says. Men asked women out on dates, and it was a stigma not to go out on a Saturday night. Radcliffe dorms served milk and cookies on Saturdays for the unlucky--thus advertising the shame, Rosenblum notes. A woman's social life was a matter of public record in the dorms, since all calls went through the bell's desk and interested residents constantly leafed through the sign-out ledger...
However, improved social relations were only a by-product of co-residency and the end of parietals, Molony says. "The most important change is that women have become much more an accepted part of the University rather than an appendage." The eventual end of the quota system made women full-fledged members of the Harvard community, and at the same time provided them unprecedented freedom to interact responsibly with Harvard men. This stands in sharp contrast to the parietal system, where women lived in a structure designed to check up on their social lives. As Rosenblum says, "It was just...
John S. Bruce '79-4 described Brown as "one of the only pre-meds I've ever known who had the sensitivity to recognize the social implications of what he was doing. He was really dedicated to his career objective and yet able to separate himself from it. His interest was in people...