Word: transients
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...House system unfortunately can be written off as nothing more than good living accomodations. House Masters grow more remote, more transient and less sympathetic. Senior Faculty associated with a House provide the residents nothing except an occasional march of the potentates, giving anyone in the dining hall some amusement watching the entire faculty of a Harvard department troop in for a free meal. Some of the grad students and tutors try to redeem the situation, but many of them don't bother. Harvard's administration is disturbed by the situation in the College, with reason: neither the living arrangements...
Many experts find that the emotional aftermath of abortion depends somewhat on circumstances (abortion is harder on single women for example, than on married ones) and greatly on emotional health. A study by Psychiatrist Norman Simon found that reactions were mild and transient in women who were relatively stable before their pregnancy was terminated...
...houses. But the quality of undergraduate living at the college is compromised. That some students prefer alternate arrangements does not mean that these are best. For a diploma mill, a nine to five association with the institution would suffice; for the University, the collegiate way of living is best. Transient movements and causes should not set aside this tradition...
...ongoing success of the present MHC--its working along with the movement to reduce the population in mental hospitals, its relatively low level of contact with those professionals sometimes hostile to MHC in the fifties, the clear definition of its projects, the extensive commitment it requires (which discourages transient membership), its back-up program of seminars and films, and its willingness to deal with frustrating local bureaucracies...
This abundance of neologisms, in a time when they are so frequent and so transient, is bound to draw criticism. But Foucault, in reply, would accuse his critic on this point of placing an illusory trust in language. He understands that men speak in language which is not fully theirs, which is constantly changing as they use it, and which betrays trays their meaning by existing in all sorts of unknown internal and external relations. This is why he focuses on discourse as separate from thought: men say both more and less than they think. The subject, in objectifying himself...