Word: distinguishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem with the President's Report lies not in any failure to distinguish acceptable from unacceptable protest, nor even so much in his untimely vituperation against the activist element. It lies in Pusey's blindness to the magnitude of disaffection at Harvard. Like the author of another recent "annual report," Pusey senses a certain restlessness--but his faith in the loyalty and middle-of-the-road acquiescence of all but a handful of his students remain unshaken. When he undertook to insult students who believe American society is rotten and are in need of redemption, Pusey did not realize...
Lucy & Fred. Sagan's views are in the minority, but on one point most educators agree: Video Boy is becoming a sort of peewee pundit. He knows, for example, the finer points of docking in outer space, can distinguish Bach from Bartok, and is a storehouse of such miscellany as the fact that whales' backs get sunburned and peel. When he enters school, his vocabulary will be at least one year ahead of the pre-TV child. On the nursery-type show Romper Room, a teacher once asked her toddlers if anyone could think of a word beginning...
...youth's "bad manners, contempt for authority, disrespect for their elders. Children nowadays are tyrants." All through history, denouncing the young has been a tonic for tired blood. More important, defying elders is hygienic for the young. A child's task is self-definition; unless he can distinguish himself from his culture, though on the culture's terms, a boy never quite becomes a man. Growing up is a dialectical process that requires things that one can push against in order to become stronger. It takes limited war against worthy opponents; a child matures by testing himself...
...mention subtlety. There aren't any blatantly inadequate performances in the Agassiz production, nor any blatantly wrong ones, but the general tendency is to over-act in a big way. Lines which should be dropped lightly are hurled down like Galileo's cannon balls until you can't distinguish one impact from the next...
Some may try to distinguish mere speech from actual recruitment for practical activities. But is not all speech an attempt to affect action? Robert Bornbaum