Word: copouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intoxicating communion of a successful encounter or T group." Sometimes recognition that the world has not changed is more than the returning grouper's new sensory awareness can take ... in which case he either turns into a "T-group bum," endlessly circuiting the growth centers, or into a copout. An alarming number of such refugees from reality leave their wives, families, jobs and communities...
...year of the student political worker will have to be remembered as the year of the student copout: though some young people are effectively involved as the election campaigns come down to the now-or-next-time stage, those performing in the fall are a small fraction of the many who made promises in the spring...
...played by bright and well-favored Yale men and their dates-will depend not on the serpent state but upon human nature. Reich's simple assumption-borrowed unexamined from the Romantic movement-that man is inherently good until corrupted by society is simply a disastrous philosophical copout...
Jane Alpert, an honors graduate of Swarthmore and ardent Women's Liberationist, argued that the copped plea was not a copout. "The enemy would have been sitting in judgment and using its own rules," she said. "It wasn't a political thing-just a purely pragmatic choice on our part...
...best literary stunts in a long while. He has substantially altered The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in a puckish attempt to satisfy those critics who have found Mark Twain's masterpiece either artless, craftless, sexless, a gutless accommodation with commercialism or an overstuffed moral copout...