Word: socializer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most universities, students can gather in a union or activities center. Harvard students are condemned to meet in Widener, the unattractive and expensive cafeterias in the Square, and the inconvenient Agassiz living room....A union would provide 'Cliffies with a place to relax between classes. It would lessen the social pressure on Widener, leaving the library to those who want to study. And such a meeting place might ease social tensions and uncertainties between Harvard and Radcliffe...Whatever building is finally chosen the University should support the project. Dating is expensive in Cambridge, and most Harvard students would welcome...
...good place for lonely isolated schizoid types," recalled Thomas A. Laage '73, placing himself in the category. He said the communal life allowed students to communicate over important matters such as preparing food, not in the purely superficial social friendships of the type that other Harvard houses promoted...
...main groups who lived in the co-op at first were foreigners, radicals, and those looking for cheap housing. However, the assistant social chairman of the Fly Club also lived there at one point, as did George Gilder, now a conservative economist. And Daemon Paine, a homeless person, came for Thanksgiving dinner in 1970 and never left until his death fifteen years later...
...search for a fresh vision is most evident in the Junior League, that onetime bastion of society ladies that has gradually emerged as a powerful force for social change. At its annual meeting three weeks ago in Chicago, some 900 delegates voted to standardize admissions procedures, pulling down, in effect, some of the blood-test barriers that for years preserved the league as a high Wasp domain. The vote, said incoming President Maridel Moulton, "will signal to the world that we really are an organization that wishes to be open to any woman who wants to make a commitment...
...cults are all gone now, and all that is left is Rambo, here coming around for the third time. This lone figure -- pushed to the social margin, lost in self-absorption -- is apparently capable of awakening and satisfying an atavistic yearning for heroic purity in so many hearts that he is, in movie terms, cost effective no matter what the price...