Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what we now allow for Aid for Dependent Children on the building and staffing of good resident institutions-call them orphanages if you must-and set up the legal and social-work procedures needed to get a majority of hard-core poor children into these institutions at an early age, we could make some real progress toward eliminating the evils associated with poverty. Children must develop in something other than a degenerating social and physical environment if they are not to degenerate. True, institutionalization of the young is a threat to the concept of the sanctity of motherhood...
Burke's Lesson. Luckily for the U.S., some of its institutions have changed with quickening pace. Therein lies one major difference between the U.S. and France in this age of contention. In the U.S., where power is widely diffused, serious dissatisfaction with policies, politicians or institutions can be resolved or at least ameliorated by democratic processes-despite the extremist assertion that "the system" is hopeless. Unlike French workers and students, most Americans with a cause can lodge their protest with the hope of inducing reasonable change by their numbers and their voices rather than by entirely rebuilding society...
...basis of two celebrated debacles. During the 1936 presidential campaign, the old Literary Digest ran a mail poll and was wrong, while three more scientific pollsters were right. Those three-George H. Gallup, Elmo Roper and Archibald Crossley-conducted interviews among a predetermined mix of ethnic, income and age groups that seemed representative of the U.S. population. The other turning point was in 1948, when the pollsters again used this "quota system" of sampling-but were wrong. The U.S. had become so complex that picking just the right population mix was too difficult...
Heart of the starlight scope is its image-intensifier tube, a sturdy combination of the home TV screen and miniaturized space-age electronics. Focused sharply by the scope's front lens, the slightest flickers of light are directed against a chemical film, causing it to discharge electrons. Boosted along by a 15,000-volt electrostatic field, those electrons smack into a phosphorcoated screen whose light then jars loose still another flock of electrons. The process is repeated three times, and the high-voltage electron acceleration, or energy buildup, produces a progressively brighter image. Besides the light, the only other...
Into the Community. Instead of automatically baptizing children in infancy, Jesuit Theologian Joseph Powers of California's Alma College would postpone the ceremony until the age of ten or twelve. "The whole meaning of baptism," he says, "is not to make a Christian out of a child but to incorporate the individual, at some time in life, into the community of the church." Thus he believes it makes more sense for a child raised in a Christian home to undergo baptism at an age when he can really start believing in the church. This procedure would effectively answer...