Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...audience of 2.5 million, the Hour is rare among TV services in its appeal to the unchurched. Instead of theology, a Schuller sermon is packed with success stories, accented by alliterative slogans and an "I'm O.K.-you're O.K." philosophy. He calls it "possibility thinking" to distinguish it a bit from the "positive thinking" of his friend the Rev. Norman Vincent Peale. Good Christians, Schuller intones, are "act-chievers" who "try-umph" over pessimism. "I don't trust skeptics, no matter how brilliant their words," he says. "I trust Jesus. He was the greatest possibility thinker...
...just and sensible corrections system should distinguish between those who need continuing care and treatment and those who if given some therapy and a job, could live peacefully outside an institution. But this is a job for highly competent psychiatrists, not the Department of Correction's informally-trained charlatans. A system of rehabilition that minimized the ex-convict's trouble in adjusting would make life easier for him and everyone else. Whether any rehabilitation can occur in a system dominated by corrections officers becomes the essential question...
...differences between the two unions go deeper than what is written on the paper of the contracts. Fundamental political and organizational characteristics distinguish the UFW from the Teamsters. The UFW is a progressive, democratic union. The election of ranch committees guarantees that the union is controlled by local workers. The broader stricture of the union, determined by a constitutional convention held in 1973, was designed by workers to stay open and responsive to their needs. The UFW exists as part of a movement against racial oppression. The workers, largely Chicano, Filipino, black and Asia, are struggling against the conditions that...
...problems. Despite the fact that the stories are all by such top Times writers as Douglas Kneeland, B. Drummond Ayres and James Wooten, one's memory of the sixty-odd stories very quickly blends into one grey wall of good but anonymous writing. It becomes very hard to distinguish individual writers and stories, although to some journalists, that may be the ultimate compliment...
...quest for ideological simplicity The Crimson has grouped four separate issues together into the editorial "Abolish the CIA" (January 14). One must distinguish between foreign CIA activities aimed at gathering information and those aimed at toppling legitimate governments. Domestically, one must distinguish CIA spying from surveillance carried...