Word: developement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Epps's highest priority now is gaining the trust of other administrators, based on his performance of deanly duties for the Harvard student community. Epps says, however, that he wants to develop closer ties to black undergraduates, while acting in the interest of the entire community. He says he believes that many black students have isolated themselves from the "intellectual strength" of Harvard via self-imposed segregation. Many black students will undoubtedly continue to perceive Epps as "one of them." Epps is disturbed by such sentiments, and remains firm in his priorities. "While I would like to have their friendship...
...creatures of need. We are born needing, and the vast majority of us die after a lifetime of struggle with many of our needs unfulfilled. These needs are not excessive--to be fed, kept warm and dry, to grow and develop at our own pace, to be held and caressed, and to be stimulated. These Primal needs are the central reality of the infant...
...reason or another, parents may interfere with their children's expression of their genuine needs. A father, for example, whose parents would never listen to him, may force his children to serve as his constant audience, frustrating their need to speak and to develop intellectually. The children, needing the father's love and depending on him for other kinds of support, confront a choice--talk and incur the father's resentment, or remain silent and preserve the semblance of love...
...form which symbolic behavior assumes depends on several factors including the neurotic's physical constitution, social environment, and economic class. In the case of the child who never was allowed to speak freely, the child might develop natural talents, if he has them, for singing or politics in order to capture the audience response his parents never offered. He may find himself talking compulsively with friends or whining to be the first to answer questions in school. With older people or people who remind him of his father, he may develop an unnaturally soft voice, so that people must constantly...
...soft and flowing in chiffon and crepe de Chine, bias cut to drape close to the body, just the thing for a moonlight tango with a gentleman in an Indian silk suit. The fabrics are natural-wool, linens, pure cotton-and difficult to care for, with a tendency to develop the rumpled badge of the thoroughly bred. "A poor man can't afford to look wrinkled," observes Lauren. "A rich...