Word: aspect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From experience, education, and research, I challenge every aspect of John Holt's thinking on educational practices [Sept. 1]. Very few children have such excessive fear of teachers and schools unless they are extremely emotionally disturbed. He is judging teachers by 19th century standards. If children have some fear of being wrong, this is good. Authority figures abound in our world. Education's purpose is to prepare people to function in society as it is; not in some Utopian fairyland where there are no frustrations, or where no one is ever wrong or punished. The teacher...
...rids them of harmful sulfur dioxide, and into the greenhouses, where they provide the proper level of carbon dioxide for ideal plant growth. "Like the old joke about the efficiency of meat-packing plants," says Hodges, "we are even using the squeal of the pig by tapping every beneficial aspect of this engine...
...times there is a downright frightening aspect in those sections. Take MEDICINE'S story on the venereal-disease detectives, who found the number of cases increasing at a runaway rate in the U.S., despite the efficacy of antibiotics, and discovered cases of children who had contracted VD before they attained their teens. On the other hand, there are refreshing notes, like SPORT'S story of the mighty minnows who are keeping the U.S. pre-eminent in girls' swimming competition...
...remarkable aspect of the shift was that Romney managed it merely by changing emphasis rather than by overt self-contradiction. In his Hartford speech four months ago, he emphasized points of agreement with the Administration, including his willingness to have the U.S. "use military force as necessary." As to domestic politicking, he observed then: "It is not a test of wills to see which party will be the peace party, which candidate will be hawk or dove." The performance earned him a public thank you from the White House...
...disorderly aspect of the Israeli Defense Army is largely a result of the fact that when the Israelis go to war they mobilize practically the entire population. Soldiers in civilian shoes and wearing a wild assortment of beach hats ride to the front in milk wagons, garbage trucks, and taxis, many of them have left their shops and farms only hours before to meet at pre-arranged checkpoints. The Arabs have also been singularly impressed with the disorderly advance of the Israeli forces: "Those Jews don't attack according to the book." an Egyptian officer complained to a Syrian after...