Word: comforts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems black separatism, such as the kind of self-imposed apartheid prevalent on many college campuses, is a temporary stage, a step in the march toward pluralism. Black college students are probably still in the van of the turning-inward movement, of going back to black roots, of finding comfort and security in blackness. Says one Columbia student: "The notion is not to get killed and not to be exploited...
...home, a grim earthquake struck California, and one scientist suggested that the quake was a function of the lunar eclipse. Retaliation, perhaps, for the little moonquakes precipitated by the astronauts. Scientists may argue the potency of the moon's gravitational pull, but for laymen there can be some comfort in the notion that the moon retains a bit of its mystery and strength...
...used to reject intellectuals to keep the student body well-rounded. We don't have that problem any more," Sides said, taking little comfort in his words...
...more formal explanation of Mike's success. Says Psychiatrist Miles Shore of Tufts University medical school: "Mike understands that behavior is communication. He understands that when a kid backs away from a ball that's thrown at him, that says something about the kid's comfort with his body, or his conflict about aggression." That conflict, Psychiatrist Lawrence Salvesen of Massachusetts General Hospital believes, often comes out in a child's fantasy that he is either "superman or super-egg (exceptionally fragile)." Mike relieves a child's anxiety, Salvesen explains, by teaching him that...
Even so, the older generation may find comfort in the fact that all those dire predictions of a day when half the population will be under 25 are not coming true. Though Americans aged 14 to 24 now constitute 20% of the population, the birth rate is falling. As a result, the nation's median age is expected to rise from 27.6 to 30 in the next 15 years. The people most likely to achieve mutual understanding, says University of Michigan Sociologist Theodore Newcomb, are "the educated young and the educated...