Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most recognize that Princeton is a small community which never has and probably never will permit the social freedom of Cambridge and New Haven. The College wants to adjust its social scale to fit the times and the undergraduates as fairly as possible. It also wants to adhere to traditional Princeton social customs. How successfully it will do this through the Campus Center and the President's committee remains to be seen...
That the Review Conference will be held is nearly assured. Secretary Dulles won small-nation support for the United Nations at San Francisco in 1945 with a promise of a chance in ten years to adjust the Charter's innequities, and a year ago in August he put the United States on record in favor of the Conference. According to Professor Louis B. Sohn of the Law School, if the issue were presented now, more than the thirty-one votes required to call the Conference are easily available...
...surpluses has never been faced head on. Two wars had postponed the day of inevitable reckoning." The G.O.P. farm bill finally faced the problem. Said he: "We have a farm program geared not to war but to peace-a program that will encourage consumption, expand markets and realistically adjust farm production to markets...
...industry to match paces with the U.S." In foreign policy they are determined to convince the world that Russia "is now ruled by a group of 'reasonable men.'" Many Moscow diplomats, said he, "believe that American policy is suffering severely from a failure or an inability to adjust realistically to Moscow's new look...
Riesman believes that in each of the three historical kinds of character direction, some men will adjust, some will fail to adjust and some will rise above adjustments. Those who fail he calls anomic (ruleless, directionless); the years of transition between two kinds of direction (inner and other) will produce many anomics. Those who transcend adjustment he calls autonomous. Their social radar is good and they use it when they choose; but they can turn it off and develop the ability to make choices out of their own individuality...