Word: expressiveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Basic to communication is the art of helping children (or adults) to express, and thus handle, their inchoate feelings. It seldom pays to condemn or reason with an angry child; strong feelings vanish not by fiat but rather by the clarification that occurs in a child's mind when a parent "mirrors" or states his problems for him. To spank a tot who says, "I hate you," is to store up his anger that will augment future misbehavior. A skillful mother listens, says, "I know just how you feel," and the child's feeling that someone understands shrinks...
Other universities--Yale and Columbia--have made some decision, he said; "Harvard needs to express itself on the matter...
...number of alumnae and at least one trustee (approximately the Radcliffe equivalent of a Harvard overseer) are beginning to express their dissatisfaction with the administration's policies. "Dissent from Mrs. Bunting's activities is very widespread," the trustee remarked. The administration's positions on both the housing controversy and the Dow demonstration have illuminated the basic problem. The administration does not want to listen to students, and, as a result, it seems to be deliberately misrepresenting student opinion to alumnae, trustees, and Council members, by giving them what they define as responsible student opinion...
...call "the bankrupt New Left technique of single issue organizing" in favor of linking the war to a variety of local problems--welfare, inflation and particularly Cambridge's shortage of low-income housing. They hope local residents will then organize to solve these problems and, at the same time, express their opposition to the war. The details of this organization are still vague, but members of the group have suggested putting pressure on the Cambridge City Council to pass a rent control ordinance, and beginning a weekly newspaper to compete with the Cambridge Chronicle and the Boston Record American. They...
Elman said the project "will provide an antidote to the fragmentation which has prevented students from asserting their proper role in the University." The study starts from the assumption that Harvard is afflicted with malaise and apathy "which means student unwillingness to express their disappointment with Harvard," he said...