Word: united
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House system, despite all the accompanying noise and shouting, is really the heart of matters. The study center should help to make the residential quad a reasonably self-contained unit, but the Houses will (or will not) give it an intellectual tone. Bunting is presently looking for Faculty members to serve as non-resident Masters for the three existing House groupings. These Masters will, with whatever assistance undergraduates can offer, construct something resembling senior common rooms...
...National Student Association, in conjunction with several other national youth organizations, will soon initiate an extensive drive to raise funds for the student integration movement in the South. The major share of the funds will be donated to the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Atlanta, chief coordinating unit for Southern student action...
...which adds up to the best first unit in the Ivy league...
...natural enough that in the chaotic sickness of a starving people's retreat would be many individual calamities. But Aten and his ghostwriter cannot leave well enough alone- throughout the middle part of the book appear such signposts as "It was as if, with Nina's departure (her unit had been ordered away), mercy left us and the sky fell in." Spelling things out has its virtues, but this is a little too much...
...year ago, Abrams has weeded out some 200 officers and men who did not shape up to his standards. Abrams tries every day to get away from the paperwork at his headquarters in Frankfurt, climb aboard his personal Bell helicopter and whirl off to inspect everyone in a unit from bird colonel to buck private. "No one is more deliberate in planning for war," says General Bruce Clarke of Abrams. "No one is more violent in execution...