Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Incest Taboo. Naturally, there are restraints on the amount of mixing allowed. The sexes are usually segregated in separate wings or on separate floors with common lounges in between. Most schools allow at least a measure of visiting in rooms, but the parietal rules vary widely. In the only coed dorm at the University of Texas, for example, men are allowed to entertain women in their rooms only on weekends. An alarm system is set on the staircases leading to the women's floors; it has been silent all year. Among the most liberal is Stanford, where...
Ginott's basic point is that mature parents can easily increase their sensitivity to their children, becoming demi-psychologists who seek out the source of a child's behavior rather than concentrate on its surface expression. With a little common sense, he insists, children of any age can be intelligently decoded. When they refuse to cooperate with a mother getting ready for the evening, she should be alert for more than ordinary balkiness and attempt to sympathize with whatever is bothering them. One kindly mother in that situation, Ginott reports, calmed her kids by saying...
...slang terms for drugs. Says the Today show's Barbara Walters, who plans to begin applying Ginottisms to her own eleven-month-old daughter as soon as she is old enough to talk: "There's nobody else who can put together his combination of psychology, common sense, and Harry Golden gemütlich...
...most of the 19th century's mind blowers, opium meant laudanum, an alcoholic solution of the drug used as a common painkiller. Laudanum was cheaper than beer and regarded as scarcely more harmful. George IV took it for hangovers. Under such names as "Mother Bailey's Quieting Syrup" and "Venice Treacle," it was prescribed for children more or less as aspirin is today...
...when Robert McNamara was Defense Secretary, called "total package procurement." Under "TPP," contractors must estimate total costs of a complex project years in advance, and they are supposed to keep quite close to that fixed-price target. TPP was designed to end the egregious overruns that had been fairly common under the older system of contracting for each step as it came along. This had encouraged contractors to make unrealistically low bids in the research phase; once entrenched in a project, they could discover "unforeseen" expenses and plead for more money...