Word: wondering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some teen-agers now simply announce that they are homosexuals while they are still in high school and wonder why the older generation is still in the closet. In Hollywood, a few homosexuals who are too young to drive are even dropped off at gay dances by their parents...
...advertising executive, her female lover, who was afraid to be seen with her, "and at least for a time, a certain portion of my sanity." There were obscene phone calls, dirty words written on her car, slashed tires. People looked on her as "a freak, a tattooed lady." "I wonder, if we knew the cost," she says, "would we still have done...
...Freshman year I decided to turn totally toward academics. That isn't where my strength lies. Three years later I still don't want to believe it. I've tried to be more of an academic. But I wasn't in love with the work. It made me wonder why I was here. Not to be facetious, that took up a lot of my time. I was confused. I turned inwards. I read a lot, did a lot of stuff by myself, basically turned off my public image...
...those artificial quotas. The vast majority of students supported the policy. Matina Horner, in a not-too-surprising role as a defender of the Harvard administration, declared that equal access was really the best thing for women, since women admitted under a 1 to 1 ratio would always wonder whether or not they'd been admitted just because they were women. Being against equal access was roughly on a level with being against motherhood...
...York City's high-rises, he finds the whole subject of earthquakes discomforting as well as fascinating. But New York, he notes, has its advantages. "Manhattan has a lot of problems," Golden explains, "but very few faults." San Francisco Correspondent John Austin feels considerably queasier. Small wonder, considering that his talks with earthquake researchers and civic defense officials, and perusal of an Office of Emergency Preparedness study, form the basis of the story "The Day San Francisco...