Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It is doubtful that Sarah Lawrence teaching methods would fit into a more traditional academic set-up. Above all else they necessitate intelligent students, able to choose for themselves, who will not misuse a relatively free environment. The college also requires a patient but vigorous breed of teachers, who believe...
Modern man worries so much about his ability to measure up to the challenges of his environment that he often, literally, worries himself sick. So believes Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn, chancellor of Sydney University and grand old (78) man of Australian medicine, who sees patients when other doctors have not...
In "strenuous and difficult times" in the past, he writes, the emphasis was upon the necessity for the individual to adjust to his environment and meet his difficulties. Many laggards were brought to a higher level of accomplishment by "mass suggestion," while the few who did not rise in this...
Actually, this sub-plot moves throughout the picture. In the context of the larger plot, however, the lives of the two young people reflect the forces moving in their immediate environment and intimately clarify the effects of the struggle. But without this context, the romance loses all significance, seems out...
THE ingredients that Hogan uses are not available to everybody. Some of them are hereditary, handed down from his Irish father, who plied his trade as a blacksmith in Dublin, Texas. Some of them come from his early environment. After his father died (when Ben was nine), he had to...