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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...smaller than CHUL, with about ten members, half students and half faculty members. Students tend to exert more power on CUE because faculty members tend not to show up for meetings and because Bowersock likes to work closely with students...

Author: By J.wyatt Emmerich, | Title: Alphabet Soup for Junior Politicians | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...this situation came to be. Air conditioning began to spread in industries as a production aid during World War II. Yet only a generation ago a chilled sanctuary during summer's stewing heat was a happy frill that ordinary people sampled only in movie houses. Today most Americans tend to take air conditioning for granted in homes, offices, factories, stores, theaters, shops, studios, schools, hotels and restaurants. They travel in chilled buses, trains, planes and private cars. Sporting events once associated with open sky and fresh air are increasingly boxed in and air cooled. Skiing still takes place outdoors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Great American Cooling Machine | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...people have waited hundreds of years to be where we are today, and in the flow of things, we tend to take "straight" people in stride. It would be nice though to think that Harvard could truly engender the integrity and morality which "Veritas" would seem to promise. Bradley Prunty HDS Lesbian and Gay Caucus

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gays at Harvard | 8/10/1979 | See Source »

That prospect sounds unheroic and, in Burns' terms, transactional. A certain amount of glamour and drama will still at tend future leaders. But in the absence of war or economic col lapse, the task of leaders will require much more than style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cry for Leadership | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

Modern pagan groups tend to be small (at most 20 members) and eclectic, drawing their beliefs from such diverse sources as ancient Egypt, the Druids, Greek and Roman antiquity and the American Indian religions. But the groups share some tenets. Most believe in reincarnation" and in a universe ruled by a supreme godhead comprising two parts: a male half, which includes the sun, and a female half, which includes the moon. The distaff side is frequently considered to have more status, which makes neopaganism especially attractive to some feminists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Preaching Pan, Isis and Om | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

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