Word: transients
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Young tutors interested in History and Lit find the avenue for advancement there at best uncertain, and hence devote most of their time to a department. As a result, History and Lit is populated by a part-time, transient staff that is too large for a cohesive discipline...
...remotest chance of making sense of higher learning, we must recognize that a university, like a supermarket, does not do the same thing for its customers that it does for its employees or for the society as a whole. We must look for a hypothesis which recognizes the transient connection between the university and its students...
...sure the comrades did understand. China's propaganda mills last week ground out a selected anthology of Mao's speeches and writings over the past 18 years entitled, "Imperialists and All Reactionaries Are Paper Tigers." Its gist: U.S. military superiority over Red China will ultimately prove as transient as did that of the Japanese and the Nationalist Chinese...
...full of stationary action: his room, her room, and a Lexington Avenue bar. His room contains Holly's Platonic friend, a fledgling writer whom she calls Buster. Holly's room contains unopened suitcases and unpacked crates frequently decorated with filled martini glasses, for in Holly's transient world, home is wherever one hangs one's hangover. Into Holly's rowdy parties troop the well-heeled and just plain heels. Among them: a rich, effeminate, gossip-column playboy; a roller-skating coloratura; Holly's cigar-and-grammar-chomping onetime Hollywood agent, who says...
...Summer School administration made much of its varied extracurricular offering, and was extremely concerned with public relations. Its immediate organ of publicity was the Harvard Summer News, published weekly for the School by editors of the CRIMSON, with aid from transient journalists in the Summer School. Since the News was published essentially as an organ of the School, it conformed--as much as it could--to its restrictions. The sensitive administration disliked controversy; thus a story on reactions or Arkansan students to the large primary victory of Orval Faubus was banned by the School on the grounds that it might...