Word: criterion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gordon does not discuss the problems of actually establishing his criterion of participatory democracy. For such a criterion to work in America or a developing country, potentially mobile individuals would have to reject assimilation into white middle-class culture or a Western-type elite in a country like Nigeria. Independence from larger society or other countries might requite considerable courage and deprivation. For the larger society may not grant the Negroes or Nigerians what they ask for, and these groups connot accept unsolicited...
...that the outgoing chairman held one of the world's most prestigious corporate posts, A.T. & T. added 30 million telephones, $17 billion in assets, and 3,000,000 shareholders-twice as many as it had when he came into the job. But if company-wide experience is a criterion, A.T. & T. has made another wise choice...
Masturbation is another act that Simons thinks should be deplored in general but condoned under particular circumstances. He points out that the vast majority of youths in Western societies go through long periods of protracted sexual tension. With the welfare of man as his criterion, Simons suggests that it is psychologically better for them to release this tension by masturbation than to prolong it at the risk of developing a morbid preoccupation with sex. The Catholic church's inflexibility in condemning remarriage after divorce is also not in accord with the modern view of human welfare. All efforts should...
...detrimental to the educational system because (a) it intensifies competition for grades at a time when many colleges -- including Harvard -- are trying to de-emphasize their importance; (b) grades were never intended to affect in any way the military status of a student; (c) grades are not a solid criterion for selection of recruits since they very so wildly among professors, departments, and colleges; (d) self-protective grade-grubbing in many cases may inhibit intellectual experimentation -- a student will hesitate to take a course that he might not do well in, but in which he might be interested...
...early to see John F. Kennedy in historical perspective and from that vantage point Alsop decides that Kennedy was a great President. His reasons: Kennedy made the nuclear deterrent credible, and he made clear the social and economic problems that face the U.S. For a third criterion of greatness, Alsop offers an odd suggestion: "As far as nature will permit young American males now brush thei: hair forward and out, in a sort of prow to make it look as much like John Kennedy's hair as possible...