Word: transients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tutorial has worked out slightly better. Here, at least, there is opportunity to meet on a relatively individual basis with one's instructor. When difficulties arise, they usually come either from the tutor's transient interest in education (most are graduate students working to continue their own studies) or from the fact that students are so accustomed to sitting passively in large lecture halls that they simply do not know how to behave in a one-to-one classroom situation...
Random and abusive use of police authority threaten the city's well-being and its citizens' respect for law far more seriously than the minor irritations occasioned by transient hippies...
...hope, blooming with all the gladness of his folk anthem, This Land Is Your Land. The gaunt Depression minstrel, with dried-grass hair and a reedy voice, spun off the Oklahoma plains like a cloud of the "dusty old dust" in his ballads to roam the nation singing in transient camps and saloons. His best stanzas staked the folk boom of the '60s, but by then their author was a wasted invalid, "drifting along" his last road in a hospital...
...Kolpacoff to a bittersweet rendition of a mother's day in Washington Square Park by Grace Paley ("Kitty has three green-eyed daughters and they aren't that great . . . they are no worse than the average gifted, sensitive child of a wholehearted mother and half-a-dozen transient fathers...
...apartments are increasing the housing supply (though gains will be wiped out or nullified at least temporarily by the construction of the Inner Belt) and supporting a new segment of the City's population. A large part of this population is indeed transient -- students, young workers who settle for only a few years and change their apartments annually, and a variety of hangers-on. But no one is very sure--and probably won't be until 1970, if then--how much of the new population is not transient...