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...fact, these charges represent a significant departure from the more straightforward, factual grounds on which the committee has usually acted...
While the church's role in moral upbringing "has withered," says Bronfenbrenner, the American public school concentrates on factual knowledge. "Training for action consistent with social responsibility and human dignity is at best an extracurricular activity." So American children turn to two surrogate character builders: TV-much of it violent-and their peers. Unlike the Soviet child's peer group, the American's "is relatively autonomous, cut off from the adult world. The trouble is," says Bronfenbrenner, "kids have little to teach each other." But they do intensify one another's antisocial bents, such as playing...
...light of "the nature of the injuries which the patient-litigant himself has brought before the court." In such cases, it suggested, patients should attempt to "delimit" the nature of their mental distress in advance, so that courts can bar questions that delve unnecessarily into "specific intimate factual circumstances." On that basis, Lifschutz decided to talk...
...insights that concrete situations demand. There follow unintelligent policies and inept courses of action. The situation deteriorates to demand still further insights, and, as they are blocked, policies become more unintelligent and action more inept. What is worse, the deteriorating situation seems to provide the uncritical, biased mind with factual evidence in which the bias is claimed to be verified. So in ever-increasing measure intelligence comes to be regarded as irrelevant to practical living. Human activity settles down to a decadent routine, and initiative becomes the privilege of violence...
Upon reading the two articles of March 17 and 18 in which members of the Venceremos Brigade describe their personal feelings and experiences while in Cuba, one cannot help but to notice the lack of any factual information to support their feelings. It seems that the members of the Brigade have done no research into Cuba's past. The reader cannot but conclude, according to their interpretation, that in 1959 Castro took a poor, underdeveloped, semi-feudal state and by the power of his personality and by the overwhelming support of the Cuban people turned Cuba into a model society...