Word: worke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Major economic disasters might force Harvard to curtail academic programs or pay more attention to the financial resources of applicants. Putnam says, "Things maybe won't work the way we want them, and there might be disasters, but I think we can handle them...
...devoting its entire attention to Harvard--if they could attract the investment talent they wanted. They could, partly because 1974 was not a banner year for the financial community, "partly because Harvard is Harvard, and partly because managers could get out of the cut-throat Wall Street world and work for an institution that they find morally and socially uplifting," Putnam says...
Outside, police spent the morning arresting small bands of demonstrators, many of whom congregated at the corner of Exchange St. to block latecomers trying to report to work and to prevent buses carrying arrested protesters from leaving the area...
...even find a parking place," Joseph Cardile from Randolph, said yesterday. He added that he believes the drinking age should be raised to 21 years because teenagers cannot handle alcohol. "Kids stole my tools to get money to buy booze. I caught them. They don't want to work, they just want to drink booze," he said...
Despite these objections, Just Above My Head is a very moving work, carried along by the intensity of the author's own feelings. His painful discovery of his need for human contact, family, and identity makes inspiring, if not pleasant, reading. And though his protagonists are black, his message applies to whites as well: the more drastically our lives change, the more we all need each other's love, he seems to be saying. Even Time could agree with that...