Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consider this scenario: The people are thrown together against their wills, trapped in colossal, modernistic buildings on a landscape devoid of trees. The lights are always lit. Pavement stretches everywhere. Cars and buses and trains and aircraft are useless; there is no way out. No darkness. No silence. No beds. No escape from an endless series of broadcast announcements, no avoiding the silly, circular games of other people's children. There are queues for food, queues for asking questions, queues for liquor-and finally queues for nothing, because there is nothing left. Then there is only boredom...
With unwarranted assurance, psychologists have frequently extrapolated from rat performances in mazes all manner of conclusions about man. Because rats can tolerate a good deal of alcohol, for instance-ounce for ounce, more than man-experimenters have thrown doubt on the longstanding conclusion that man and drink dangerously mix. Insights into the human capacity for stress, based on experiments with placid laboratory rats, falter before the unrehearsed wild rat's total inability to endure any man-imposed stress...
Stephan B. Kellogg '71, publisher of the Student Calendar--a division of HSA, said that his agency has not tried to get Boston After Dark thrown off campus, as was charged this week. "This thing has been distorted out of proportion," he said. "We should exert out influence and improve our public relations...
...subject matter of the film became apparent, however, lighted cigarettes thrown from the balcony added to the restlessness in the theatre fostered by the violence on screen. Finally, a group which had been drenched with water from the balcony started the call for "lights." Most just sat and blinked at each other, questioning and anxious, when the lights went on. Some, hot and troubled, were calling for the film to go on, while others already were slipping out into the night. Soon we all scattered, disheartened, when the film was called...
...final analysis, after all the rhetoric is cleared away, either ROTC remains and fulfills its purpose, or it is thrown off campus. To have it stay is in effect to support the U.S. military's policies of suppressing just popular revolutions abroad and the quelling of Black rebellions at home. The courses at Harvard and the "liberal" administrative atmosphere obscure this fact. The assumptions that American free enterprise is basically good and that the university is a place for objective scholarship make students think that they are engaged in a process of learning (abstract learning), and in no way part...