Word: vacuum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...booming economy has brought students better jobs, and dustier rooms. As a result of tightening supplies of skilled labor, students who used to vacuum rooms can now find more attractive, higher paying work elsewhere...
...reduction in vacuum service--from once a week to once every two--will allow more lint and old newspapers to accumulate under beds and furniture, an annoying inconvenience for the more fastidious undergraduate. But the cause of the manpower shortage is certainly welcome: Students who work part-time can now wear white collars, instead of blue...
...group gathers in seclusion under the guidance of a leader who refuses to give leadership in the expected sense. There are no rules of procedure, no agenda. In this planned vacuum, minus labels, titles and props, each member demonstrates his "life style" simply by talking. The authoritarian sounds bossy, the abdicator yields in arguments, the critic criticizes, and it is all supposedly plain-often painfully plain to the subject himself-when the others' observations of him begin to "feed back." If things go well, a kind of agape results. If not, the practice can be dangerous: nervous breakdowns have...
...overcome the inertia which our present ignoirance about crime imposes on attempts at reform? Like the rest of nature, the human brain abhors a vacuum. If we do not help people move toward an understanding of how complex the issues and the facts in this field are, they will continue to think in terms of meaningless and often destructive oversimplifications. It will be difficult to get support for the process of change if discussion of issues is confined to whether to be for or against the Supreme Court, whether to be tough or soft on criminals, whether to support...
...vacuums for freshmen use will be in the offices of the custodians in charge of the Yard's five freshman divisions. It is not known whether upperclassmen will be allowed to use them to make up for the weeks they will be missing vacuum service...