Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan radio station WABC and Albuquerque's KOB; that matter has been pending since 1941. And when the House Commerce Committee recently requested a one-year moratorium on any FCC rules on pay TV, the commission did not mind very much-since the FCC had already managed to avoid settling the issue for 13 years...
...Mother. Whatever else he does, though, the agent can rarely avoid for long his original function: the care and occasionally the feeding of his authors, who, like infant children, are in constant need of mothering. Few authors can have that need fulfilled as thoroughly as Novelist Budd Schulberg (What Makes Sammy Run?), whose agent really is his mother, Ad Schulberg, a 37-year veteran of the business. But few agents serve as a mother substitute as successfully as Candida Donadio, an exceedingly shy woman who abhors publicity and rarely allows herself to be photographed. Such clients as Joseph Heller (Catch...
Though most agents try to avoid taking on untried writers, Miss Donadio makes a specialty of them. Says Knopf Vice President Robert Gottlieb: "Candida will send a story to a small literary magazine and not take out a cent of commission from the teeny check that comes back-and she'll do it for years...
Clearly the only way to avoid innumerable recurrences of the Orangeburg tragedy is for Negro college administrators to realize the support they owe to their students' political actions. The black college can be an effective force in bringing the political change and social justice so desperately needed in their neighboring communities. These colleges are producing the people that are going to make that change happen. It would be tragic if those changes occur despite the role of the black college, rather than because...
...world. But for other individuals, hard to distinguish from their fellows, the general confusions of adolescence mask a diffusion and despair not characteristic of a developmental phase, but indicative of emotional disorder. This differentiation of normal developmental crisis from emotional disorder, this ability to pick out disturbance but to avoid potentially weakening or infantalizing interference must be the concern of every educator and mental health worker...