Word: transients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven-story brick hotel has 90 residential apartments and 24 transient rooms. According to hotel sources, the transient rooms are being cleared immediately and no more guests will be accepted in them...
...University official said last night that the transient rooms were being closed because "Harvard University is not equipped to handle the day-to-day operation of a hotel." The official also noted that the Ambassador's public dining room will be shut immediately...
...studies singing, piano and music theory, attends modern-jazz dancing classes five mornings a week ("It makes me feel as if I had soap bubbles for shoes"), and "dabbles in watercolors and short stories." Says she solemnly: "The lives of actors are centered round such transient things. What career can replace the total growth within the self?" She lives in an old clapboard house in Beverly Hills, spends most of her between-class hours walking alone through the woods, her evenings listening to her 1,000-record collection or playing chess with a friend. "Yvette has this kind of relationship...
...last can of pork and beans. Said North Hollywood Grocer Sam Goldstad: "They're nuts. One lady's working four shopping carts at once. Another lady bought twelve packages of detergents. What's she going to do, wash up after the bomb?" Yet for all such transient evidences of panic, the U.S. was solidly behind Kennedy. As he himself had discovered on his election-year forays around the nation, it was the overriding wish of almost all Americans to "do something" about Cuba...
...imaginative alternatives to the broad base of Yale undergraduate education that DeVane accepts as his primary responsibility. Noting the "increasingly fierce specialization of the graduate schools"-which eventually draw 75% of Yale College graduates-he insists on maintaining the breadth of liberal arts. "We have no time for the transient or the immediately applicable and quickly advantageous," he once explained to a gathering of Yale parents. "We aim to give the student the solid and permanent studies of man's concerns, a long view of man's life and a vision of the greatness to which...