Word: sorta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...well-deserved epitaph for a great gunfighter. Sorta gives a man something to shoot...
...then the parietals business started as a result of this. Given that she could only be around on weekends. I sorta blamed the parietal system for this lack of closeness. Blamed Harvard for structuring the life to make woman and intimacy impossible or at least to discourage it. So I tried to change the system to permit women to be around more often, for a more intimate role, not just...
...nice people. Three years preceding this I had become sort of a bookworm. So I get to this family and they expected me, since I was eldest, to lead the house and to be energetic. I was 13, just about 14. They expected more independence from me and I sorta developed it. But I still stayed a bookworm and eventually I went to a Catholic high school that was very select...
...proved freshman year to myself that I could just do the work and get by, and I was willing to do that but after awhile I found I just couldn't prostitute myself to get by. It's still too threatening to me personally. Uh, I would, it's sorta the same problem I had in high school of losing myself--I would feel lost--by getting too involved in a middle class venture...
...establishment and Harvard, find something else to identify with. The SDSer can afford to be an SDSer. It's a subculture with its own satisfactions. It may not be particularly useful politically but it satisfies the needs of its members who share the same separation from society. It sorta becomes a private club that has its own values and structure that are as alien to me as the Harvard system or the American system. They escaped from one society to build another one which is sometimes just...