Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million Center, not yet complete, will house classrooms and common rooms for participants in the Business School's Advanced Management Program, which brings executives to Harvard for refresher course. The building was named for its principal donor, Leonard F. McCollum, Chairman of the Board of the Continental Oil Company...
...Center's upper floor, finished only hours before the dedication, includes three common rooms, a kitchen, and a bar. The lower floor, which will open within two months, consists of two 90 seat lecture halls. When complete, the Center will house all meetings and seminars for the Advanced Management participants...
Pervasive Demand. In a study of 60 families with battered children, University of Colorado Psychiatrists Brandt F. Steele and Carl B. Pollock discovered one characteristic all these parents had in common. As children, they had been battered themselves, either physically or emotionally: "All had experienced a sense of intense, pervasive, continuous demand from their parents, a sense of constant parental criticism. No matter what the patient as a child tried to do, it was not enough, it was not right, it was at the wrong time, it bothered the parents, it would disgrace the parents in the eyes...
...never missed it," he says. "The whole human condition is slavery, and self-liberation is that little flash in the darkness for the individual." That attitude is about all that Fowles' novels have in common. "In modern art we ought to get used to the idea that the world of the imagination is a kind of landscape in which a writer can go wherever he likes." Among future excursions Fowles is planning: a novel of Nabokovian linguistic experiment and two "entertainments"-a detective thriller and a science-fiction story...
...abortion performed in a good hospital by a qualified physician under sanitary conditions is statistically as safe as having one's tonsil's removed," writes Sikes. The operation, done correctly, usually takes about 15 to 20 minutes. The most common procedure (called a D and C-dilatation and curettage) removes the fetus by a simple scraping of the womb. In England, doctors use the newly developed vacuum aspirator, which pulls the fetus out like a vacuum cleaner. Both methods are effective until the woman is in her twelfth week of pregnancy...