Word: talking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston Patriots and the San Francisco 49ers refuse to even talk to the "muscle hustlers." "That is handling players as if they were chattels," complains Marty Blackman, a 30-year-old lawyer whose Pro Sports Inc. handles 100 athletes. Actor Jim Brown, who feels he was exploited when he was an all-pro fullback for the Cleveland Browns, agrees. Two years ago, he organized the United Athletic Association to represent black athletes. Among his first clients was Leroy Kelly, who succeeded Brown at Cleveland as the league's leading ground gainer. At the time, Kelly was making...
...first-year professor," he said, "called us a bunch of twerps." He added that another professor has told faculty members to "talk tough" to students, to "make them feel like they are part of the decision-making process--without making any significant changes...
...Literature (March 18). Nothing so tempestuous occurred as what your article has attempted to stir up, and I believe that most of those present would agree with me that it was "a very constructive occasion." Since it was to be a kind of family occasion, involving some frank shop-talk and possible personalities, your reporter was asked to leave. I now regret that we did not ask him to stay, because I feel sure that first-hand observation would have given him a more harmonious picture...
...killed hamsters, girls who live in the brick dorms are so existentially stunted that they only point to parietal rules and the lack of "intellectual conversation" as reasons for doing away with dorms. But these complaints are abstractions on the periphery; the experience itself is too overwhelming to talk about. Not until they get off campus can people really understand why some of their friends go crazy...
...flow from person to person getting broken and lost as they move, a letter comes from abroad and has its stamp ripped off before the addressee sees it, daily events like meals and the arrival of Gordon linen march blindly on, compulsory dorm meetings are held, toilets flushed, people talk. The individual girl has no control over events or time, can start or stop nothing, feels no responsiveness from her world. The stage has no exits...