Word: deviant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thirty-year-old Victor Taylor has achieved an exceptional academic record, and last week he was granted an M.A. degree in psychology from Southern Illinois University. The subject of his thesis: Anti-Deviant Aggression and Self-Absolution. Two years ago, Taylor earned his B.A. magna cum laude from the same college-completing his degree in a remarkable 21 months (TIME, Oct. 16, 1972). His scholastic achievements qualify him for a number of jobs in teaching or community mental health, and he would probably have little trouble gaining admission to a Ph.D. program. But for the moment at least, these options...
Regulars Only. The gas shortage is sparking other types of deviant behavior. Flouting of the law is on the rise...
...that have been off the grill more than ten minutes or coffee more than 30 minutes old, Big Brother in Oak Brook will find out. Headquarters executives calculate exactly how much food each restaurant can be expected to throw away each day, and are ready to chastise a chronically deviant manager who has no good explanation...
...conclusion so radically deviant from official American belief naturally led its adherents to question other American orthodoxies. College students were most prone to reach such a conclusion, if only because the draft forced them to consider the war as it did not those who were older. And their feelings took shape in the beginnings of a predominantly collegiate, radical counter-culture. (I don't mean to suggest that the war was the only reason...
This logic, which serves mainly to retard students' development as even-handed journalists, often boils down to printing inoffensive material vis-a-vis the administration, or becoming an off-campus, independent publication. (The administrative catch phrase for deviant editors is "irresponsible.") For most college papers, though--indeed all but a scarce few -- the start-up costs of independent publication and the subscription revenue needed to sustain independence are prohibitive...