Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paper emerged from battle flushed with victory and financially very, very, able. Red ink was a thing of the past...
...early July, Glimp announced that he was resigning from the deanship he had held for two years in order to become executive director of the Committee of the Permanent Charity Fund. At the time, he said, "This just looked like too exciting a thing not to do even though I had mixed feelings about leaving Harvard now or at any time." In recent years, the $70 million fund, which is one of the nation's two largest community foundations, has concentrated on supporting projects to attack urban problems-a trend Glimp said he plans to continue...
Glimp's decision to resign predated the April upheaval, he said at the time, "in fact I'd rather not leave Harvard now, but the new position is not the kind of thing that pops up every year...
...talking. One would think that among all the talking going on in a Radcliffe dorm there must by the laws of probability be some of the stuff called intellectual conservation, though no one's really sure what that is. But much of the talk is out of control, a thing detached from the individuals engaging in it, the meaningless result of universal pressure. As such, the talk itself is distorted. It is jacked up from the level of simple things like intellectual matters to opinions about other people, a level of such complication that talk is helpless...
...THING dorms are interested in most of all is studying. Everyone is willy-nilly identified is a student and thrown into a schedule that has a relentless momentum of its own. There is no sense for the individual when she wakes up in the morning that she has a day to do with as she wishes. Studying is not a free and personal thing but a compulsory activity by which an atom holds its place in the mass. Everyone studies all the time and worries whether everyone else isn't studying better, another imaginary cheese mistake. "Are you working again...