Word: concerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reverse Racism. Despite widespread concern with the problem, many civil rights leaders argue that the term "white backlash" is a misnomer. "It's white frontlash," insists Chicago Urban League Director Edwin Berry. "It's a prejudice that's always been there...
Still, pop-psych flourishes-but it has entered a new phase. From conventional concern with repression and frustration, the fashion has shifted to alienation and identity problems...
Theorists about child raising have abandoned other old psychological certainties, including the overriding importance of toilet training. "The Scott-tissue theory of personality is out of fashion," says Harvard Psychologist Gordon Allport. Now there is more general concern about "total relationship" between parent and child. Sometimes the children themselves become ardent pop-psychers. "No one is more adept than a child at using psychological terms as a substitute for reality," says Chicago Child Psychiatrist Dr. Ner Littner. "Nine-and ten-year-olds chatter away quite happily about sibling rivalry, talking of the urge they have to kill an older brother...
Faith McNulty argues that the whooping crane is well worth the concern. Despite the efforts of conservationists, the tallest (over 4 ft.) and by far the most impressive-looking North American bird is fluttering perilously toward extinction. At the last annual count, there were only 51 of the great birds left on earth (seven are in captivity). That they have survived at all, as Author McNulty shows in this splendidly indignant book, is probably due more to their tenacity than to much publicized efforts to save them. Now the Federal...
...administrators (Dean Monro) sign all slips -- something many schools did -- but also numbered the forms and insisted that students sign out for a certain number at any one tmie. Apparently an example of exaggerated mistrust of students, this was only a reflection of an exaggerated concern with meeting the requirements of the law: Harvard wanted some formal "control" over the forms instead of dispensing them freely as some colleges...