Word: waited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HARDLY wait. They are decked out in their best, a bit high, very nostalgic. You have the excited anticipatory feeling of meeting old close friends, and of finally talking to less known ones. You want to embrace each and itch to see which others are around the next corner which have not come...
Josh Arnold is 17, going on adulthood, and grown up everywhere but in the head. When his father volunteers for the Navy in World War II, Josh and his decaying Southern-belle mama go off to wait at the family summer place in Corazón Sagrado, a tiny town in the mountains of New Mexico. Unfortunately, Mama can't adjust to Sagrado; the people are Mexicans, Indians and Anglos, the streets are full of donkey manure, and there's scarcely anyone to play bridge with. She begins to tap the stock of sherry in the cellar...
...students have gone home. The Daily Spectator stopped publication a couple of weeks ago with the exception of occasional broadsides on major incidents. A few do course work; but most took automatic "p's" for passing. Most wait. Politics has replaced academics as the institutionalized rationale for living at Columbia this month. The huge apathetic majority has been forced to take a side. But politics does not give a student much to do unless he sit-ins or counter-demonstrates. As a result there is constant political potential for a large demonstration...
...however, why it is that those with power feel they must wait until pressured and coerced before doing what is right and obvious. As a simple example, why does not the University Administration, on its own, without the necessity of confrontation, take the same action with respect to the Turner Construction Company's work on the tenth house that is has recently taken with regard to Vappi and the Law School building? I have been down to that site several times within recent weeks, and each time I find only one black worker among...
...seniors. Students will also no longer need the signatures of their own department chairmen or head tutors for independent studies, only those of the person sponsoring their work and, if it is a junior faculty member, that of his department's head tutor. Freshmen will still have to wait a year for this...