Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site zeus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!teklds!zeus!bobr From: bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: LETTERS WE NEVER FINISHED READING Message-ID: <443@zeus.UUCP> Date: Tue, 15-Jan-85 16:19:06 EST Article-I.D.: zeus.443 Posted: Tue Jan 15 16:19:06 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 18-Jan-85 02:16:33 EST Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 19 HARVARD UNIVERSITY John F. Kennedy School of Government 79 John F. Kennedy Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 DEAR COLLEAGUE: I need your assistance in a study I am conducting of the voluntary or selective marginal situation: a sought-after situation which entails being on the margins of two social positions, attitudinal dispositions, or idealogical commitments but a full member or adherent of neither, and which enables individuals to differentiate themselves from others who share their social positions, values, and attitudes. Voluntary marginality also ... -- Robert Reed, Logic Design Systems Division, tektronix!teklds!bobr