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...Keith Davis, a professor of management at Arizona State University, who has been studying office and factory rumors for 20 years. "With the rapidity of a burning powder train," Davis asserts, "information flows out of the woodwork, past the manager's door and the janitor's mop closet, through steel walls or construction-glass partitions." Moreover, "well over three-fourths" of company rumors are accurate...
...they concurred on the urgency of answering these questions. At least they did so verbally. In the end, however, the controversy produced no more than a few sadly vapid conversations between students and administrators. The unanswered questions at the heart of the problem were hardly brought out of the closet, and remain unanswered, which could lead to further disruptions when the plan comes up for revision next Fall...
...caught receiving "Notes from a Lady at a Dinner Party," a young architect has to resort to the most difficult assortment of social acrobatics in accepting and reading the notes his hostess keeps slipping into his pocket. Their unusual correspondence culminates in a fumbling rendezvous in a closet. Were they to make contact, however, were they to touch each other even briefly in the throes of a clandestine relationship, they would break the rules of Malamud's game of Choose-Your-Own-Island. Instead, the architect realizes that his hostess is playing an empty, self-deceptive game...
...walked by, or by imitating the behaviour of what they conceived a homosexual to be. They were cruel, yes, but a large part of it stemmed from ignorance. That's why re-education is so important." And Peter, who, in his own words, "just came out of the closet," says: "Anybody who thinks that name calling and insults don't hurt is wrong. Such persecution must be stopped...
Even though his own agents at the time were searching for Hunt to quiz him about Watergate, Gray obediently took these files home, put them in a closet over the weekend, then carried them to his office and discarded them in a "burn bag" to be destroyed. Although some other FBI officials do not believe him, Gray claimed he did not even look at the papers to see what he was burning. Gray contends that he learned their contents only last month from Henry Petersen, the head of the Justice Department's criminal division. According to Gray, Dean told...