Word: adjuster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lacking a truly progressive education, the child is trained simply to accept the system, taught subtly that his role is to "belong" and "adjust," surely not to change or reform the society. But where has this led? Patriotism is feeble. The best people, says Goodman, are not turning back--like Plato's philosopher who has emerged from the case--to serve their country. So boys listen to speeches written on Madison Avenue, and they have not yet learned to cry, "Shame! make your own speech at least...
...their images on the floor TV monitors. Mindful of the lighting trouble that had befallen his opponent in the first debate, Kennedy noted "all those lights pointing over here" (at his position), and "only one points over there" (at Nixon's). Muttered he, as technicians scampered to adjust the lighting: "Let's not have all the lights in my eyes." As before, Kennedy disdained any TV makeup...
...Crimson, the situation may be more difficult. Harvard played a dreadful game against UMass last week and would no doubt have lost even if Ravenel had not been hurt. Now the varsity must not only adjust to a new quarterback but come back after a miserable performance...
Emphasizing the moral concern of psychoanalysis, the psychiatrist attacked a modern tendency to "adjust men to an inhuman industrial society." He said that analysis must not become an instrument to smooth out any traces of individuality in men, nor must analysts continue in their role as "priests of the industrial...
...gloomiest reading of all. Writing of the national housing picture in Midwest Housing Markets, President Irving Rose of Advance Mortgage Corp. reported that "housing activity, both new and used, is in decline in most of the cities in our survey, for the third consecutive quarter. We may have to adjust to a lower level of housing activity than we were accustomed to in the decade of the '50s. Housing may have lost much of its usefulness to the managers of the national economy as a contracyclical weapon...