Word: expression
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Safe Are They? Many doctors who approve of most of Wilson's hormone therapy see no reason for an older woman to have bleeding episodes, and they feel there may be good reasons why she should not. There are others who express either skepticism or opposition to virtually any hormone replacement. The authoritative and conservative Medical Letter grudgingly concedes that for women suffering the obvious and immediate discomforts of the menopause, estrogens are "relatively harmless" if given for only a few months, or a year or two at most, and may be helpful for emotional distress. But the Letter...
...TIME'S cover story on Eastern Europe [March 18] is excellent. You have compressed an enormous amount of perception into the judgments you express; what's even more difficult, you are sweeping without being superficial and as accurate on the fact as you are authentic on the feel of this complex region...
Conscience v. Status. The report says that most students express general satisfaction with Cal, yet even these "cannot isolate themselves from nonconformist attitudes and ideas: they react positively or negatively." The nonconformists believe that most American adults, including their teachers, are "sacrificing conscience to the quest for status" and that "a man must fight hypocrisy to live in a moral world." Yet their own obsession with "keeping cool" is also hypocritical, argues the committee. Their desire for "instant love, instant poetry, instant psychoanalysis and instant mysticism" is just a "form of escape from hard work," clothed in a "quasi-moral...
...distinctive feature of Speak-outs, which have never been tried at an American university before, are their "individualism," Safran said. "Collective statements of protest must all too often take a stand on the lowest common denominator. The Speak-out will provide a forum for professors to express their individual opinions--it must be made clear that they are not speaking with a single voice...
...return to Harvard. He describes the Harvard community as "very pleasant, perhaps the greatest concentration of interesting people anywhere in the universe." Parry finds only one major deficiency in the Harvard educational process--he thinks that Harvard students, particularly freshmen and sophomores in his course, History 174, "do not express themselves clearly or briefly enough." American secondary schools and colleges, he explained, do not give their students enough practice, drill, and criticism in expository writing...