Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HISTORY. I came to Harvard in the fall of 1965. It was a crisp fall and quite russet, if I remember correctly. Two falls before, John Kennedy was shot dead in the middle of a Biology test. A girl came running into class hysterical to tell us. A few of us stayed to finish up our mollusca; then they let us out early. The summer before, I was a civil rights worker in Alabama. In those days, we believed that the government could solve all of our problems, and that we were the good guys and the government...
Though he cautioned that "I do not see the university as a kind of mirror image of society or as a test place for social change and improvement," McCarthy went on to say that three issues--the war in Vietnam, racial discrimination, and demands for participation in government--were having reverberations within the universities...
...doors to see if they had been dusted. Entering one room, he pointed to the bed, asked "Do you mind?" and flopped onto it, carefully keeping his feet raised to avoid getting black shoe polish on the spread. In a bathroom, he climbed into the tub, fully clothed, to test its leg room, then turned on the shower?soaking his jacket in the process...
...According to Frommer, Fielding writes "as though the only reason for going to Europe is to eat one grand meal after another. My people don't want to stay in hotels that have stock market tickers in the lobbies. They're people who want to test Europe?live on the Left Bank of Paris instead of the Right, eat in the same restaurants the local people eat in." Frommer's "people" are mainly travelers in the 30-and-under age bracket?currently nearly half of all the U.S. tourists who visit Europe. He appeals to them so gainfully that within...
...restaurants and cabarets, Fielding is always?if he can manage it?incognito. He reserves a table in advance, either under an alias (Parker, Stone and Phillips are his favorites) or in the name of a local friend whom he is taking to lunch or dinner. Temp has four basic test dishes: eggs Benedict ("You can tell a lot from the consistency of the hollandaise"), vol-au-vent ("So often it's gucky"), bouillabaisse ("Every maritime country has its own version") and coquilles St. Jacques. He is an expert at moving food around on his plate to make it look...