Word: environmental
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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For most people in that age, reason was the way the human mind--all human minds--naturally worked. In their opinion this natural working was indeed, as matters then stood, seriously impeded in the great majority of human beings by ignorance, superstition, preconceptions, errors, by bad laws and bad institutions...
The Vietnam War does go on, it is immoral and murderous, and the Beatles have never spoken up about it. Sometimes institutions are repressive and rooted themselves in violence and indecency (yet the Beatles sneer, 'You say its-the institution/Well you know you better free your mind instead'). Racism is...
Whyte's theories all go much farther than prettification and cosmetics. He knows that an interest in landscape, more than in any other element of the environment, can lead to resolution of larger problems. "People," he says, "are stirred by what they can see."
Dr. Falls might have added the cultural factor. He had the advantage of sound family background and a college-graduate mother. Admission tests are written with a white, middle-class bias, complains Dr. Hiawatha Harris, a black Los Angeles psychiatrist. He cites a young Negro candidate who went through two...
"In a racist environment," says Manhattan's Dr. John V. Cordice Jr., "a Negro is better received where there's a minimum of contact with patients. For example, a radiologist-all he does is look at X rays. A pathologist is acceptable because he deals only with cadavers...