Word: distinguishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fashioned educational philosophy and experimental new methods. Miss Watson, the formidable head of the English department, stubbornly defends her course in transformational grammar (a type of semantic analysis used in computer science). The subject baffles other members of the department, and gives considerable trouble to students who cannot yet distinguish between adjectives and verbs. But no one graduates who has not passed the course. Many students are taking it the second and third time; the failure rate is high even for Shaw...
Thomson also said that in dealing with China, "it is essential to distinguish between China's highly bellicose words and her highly bellicose words and her highly cautious deeds...
ONCE a broad-based coalition is established, subsections could be organized to distinguish between resisters and supporters. A student involved in this Union would be more likely to transfer to a more radical gradation than one who never joined because the Union excluded those who held his original position...
...growing up and when it is part of an emotional disorder. No one would wish to institute psychotherapy with young men or women whose painful struggles are moving them closer to an understanding of themselves or of their relationship with the external world. But for other individuals, hard to distinguish from their fellows, the general confusions of adolescence mask a diffusion and despair not characteristic of a developmental phase, but indicative of emotional disorder. This differentiation of normal developmental crisis from emotional disorder, this ability to pick out disturbance but to avoid potentially weakening or infantalizing interference must...
...save it." This sums up our war-policy more succinctly than its most eloquent critics and indicates how far we have travelled in the realms of hypocritical self-justification. We are close to the famous words of the bishop at the siege of Beziers, who was asked how to distinguish loyal citizens from Albigensian heretics: "Kill them all, God will know his own." Torquemada, weeping for the souls of unbelievers he had saved by burning their bodies at the stake, recalls our President's portrait of himself kneeling in prayer...