Word: transients
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apartments are increasing the housing supply (though gains will be wiped out or nullified at least temporarily by the construction of the Inner Belt) and supporting a new segment of the City's population. A large part of this population is indeed transient -- students, young workers who settle for only a few years and change their apartments annually, and a variety of hangers-on. But no one is very sure -- and probably won't be until 1970, if then -- how much of the new population is not transient...
...despite the technical delay, residents and students were allowed to voice their criticisms. Some residents felt "college kids take advantage of the City without adding anything," and were "tired of these students carrying on." Other neighbors just objected to the general tenor of the transient population, rather than the boys personally...
...instances marijuana has produced psychoses, as does LSD." This, I presume, is to suggest some similarity in such transient or toxic psychoses. I've seen no evidence for such. I know of two psychotic episodes following administration of marijuana, one excessive, taken orally, both lasting under 20 minutes, neither with any after effects. Such cases are so rare as to be almost negligible...
...psychiatric patient. We might not be surprised to find some depression early in college because of the mourning involved in the break from home. Also we might expect some depression due to loss in self-esteem when students meet stiff competition at college. Yet these depressions should be transient, from a situational and development point of view. That they are transient is a hypothesis that should be test by following students, like those the present project, into adult life and determining whether or not adjustment mechanisms and symptom change...
...survey of a Chicago suburb, William T. Whyte (The Organization Man) reported that the highly transient young-marrieds found in the nosy neighborliness of the community a substitute for the lost context of rooted families left be hind in the home town. "Outgoing" was a term of approbation, and somebody who kept to himself or put up a fence was distrusted. Says Whyte: "The group is a tyrant; so also is it a friend, and it is both at once...