Word: strangers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very fact that so many people are eager to talk about their innermost feelings with a total stranger for the purpose of publication points up one of society's shortcomings: no one listens. Denes is at least willing to do this much...
When they go out-if they go out -they listen anxiously for the sound of footsteps hurrying near, and they eye every approaching stranger with suspicion. As they walk, some may clutch a police whistle in their hands. More often, especially after the sun sets, they stay at home, their world reduced to the confines of apartments that they turn into fortresses with locks and bars on every window and door. They are the elderly who live in the slums of the nation's major cities. Many are poor. White or black, they share a common fear-that they...
...account, Philip Agee is no stranger to dirty tricks. The author of a 1975 book about the Central Intelligence Agency's clandestine Latin American activities, ex-agent Agee freely admitted his own role in bugging a foreign embassy and planting phony incriminating evidence on a leftist politician who was in disfavor with the CIA. Last week Agee, a resident of Britain for the past four years, claimed that he personally was the target of spookdom's latest dirty trick. Scotland Yard detectives knocked on the door of his Cambridge home and served him with a deportation letter...
...looked on," he remarks. "In New England there is hardly an alternative other than a furtive sense of having been conspired against, which, difficult of concealment, leads one's neighbors to say one has 'turned queer.' " Then he warns: "In age a man may become a stranger in his native land." He wonders, too, if the intense preoccupation with the future so often institutionally urged upon the aged is realistic. "The past is secure, the present only reasonably so, and the future, even looking ahead to Thanksgiving or Christmas, is-who knows...
...administration is no stranger to labor battles: over the last year alone it has squared off against individual workers (such as Sherman Holcombe), unions (the dining hall workers), and labor organizers (District 65). But intra-management challenges like Brown-Beasley's are something new to Harvard and apparently something about which the University has much to learn...