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...talk is crude but excited. Attitudes toward sex reveal much about motivations. In A City on a Hill there is more talk, less feeling. The talk is almost exotic--about fat Tijuana whores and Chinese baskets and a house in Brighton where you wash off with PhisoHex to stave off V.D. The sex that actually happens (we hear about it through more talk) is uniform, innocuous. No one is tender, no one is embarrassed to talk about how wet somebody's twat is or where are we going to fuck. As a monotone of one lifeless mood, it all rings...
...report, an honest attempt by committee chairman James Q. Wilson and ten others to stave off possible University vs. city collision and recommend community policy changes, has been all but buried by dust--and a hefty supply of interim and long range planning reports. The Faculty, "adopted" the report in a hectic April 1969 meeting, passed it on to the Administration, and saw few of its suggestions implemented. Neither did the residents of Cambridge...
...community groups may have the legal muscle to stave off any sort of Harvard-council coalition that the Kennedys could muster. The curious federal law that gives anyone the right to challenge an environmental impact statement, could give neighborhood Ten the power to tie-up the subsequent proceedings for at least five years, "as Smith unhappily points out. But more important the Cambridge neighborhood groups have the legitimacy of begin on the defensive to the Library's threats and community walls bedecked with screaming headlines of Kennedys vs. the little people are very safe pickets to hide behind. Nobody wants...
...University's purchase of the equipment led the Boston Typographical Union to file for a National Labor Relations Board hearing in order to stave off possible layoffs of its own members whose work the new equipment would replace. The workers who trained on the equipment this week are members of the Graphic Arts International Union...
...contest was decided almost immediately. The Titans jumped to an untouchable six-point margin after one minute of play. And when Arnie Needleman injured his ankle while trying to stave off the Oral onslaught, the Crimson spirit dissipated into the Oklahoma...