Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...better panel shows. Not an inch of new ground was broken, not a refreshing new idea voiced. Part of the problem, certainly, was the format, which called for three ABC newsmen sitting around a table in San Francisco's KGO-TV studios to pose questions, but inhibited direct dialogue between the Senators. McCarthy was particularly critical. "This is not really shaping up as a debate," he complained. "We're just going to sit around a table and be nice to each other...
...political terms. But the evidence is that it was a step not taken by the great majority of French workers. Only a vocal few, in protest against their long history of being flattened to a single dimension by their unions as well as management and the government, demanded "direct democracy" and "participation" in factory affairs. They were sufficient in number to shout down Pompidou's wage increases. But they were not numerous enough to prevent the great bulk of French workers from wanting to go back to their workbenches, once it was clear that De Gaulle intended to stand...
...psychologists and psychiatrists took pains to point out that they are not suggesting repression of emotions as a direct cause of cancer, but rather as a condition that may contribute to the development of the disease. If the theory proves correct, they suggest, some cancers could one day be thwarted by preventive psychotherapy...
Such pressures, direct and indirect, have had a profound impact on the 630,000 seniors who will pick up diplomas this spring. While many?perhaps a majority?are the familiar breed who spent their years at college in pursuit of an education or a profession without fretting too much over the meaning of either, even the quiet ones have been affected more than they show. Those who are in the really new mold sometimes show it by a defiance in dress: beards beneath the mortarboards, microskirts or faded Levis under the academic gowns. More often, and far more significantly...
Some children, especially if they are handicapped or are older than one year, are rejected by adoptive parents at their first direct meeting. To minimize such disturbing experiences, agencies often give couples their first view of the child through one-way mirrors or arrange "accidental" meetings in the park. These devices assume that the parents and child live in the same area, and even then are by no means surefire: many a ccuple, emotionally on edge, blurt the accidental-meeting game away in the first sentence...