Word: feels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that people can't sit in a garden, watch birds around them-this is the real source of difficulty. We need more research not only on the minimal needs of people in cities but also on their optimal needs. What can we do to help them feel more truly human...
...made it to the center in five minutes. For the uninitiate, mastering the maze can take half an hour of trial and error. Ayrton has provided no printed explanation or map to the solution. "If a person could walk in and figure it out," he explains, "I would feel I had failed...
...teachers apparently caught it, and headed back to their campuses with a wholly new perspective. Says Mae Ethridge, from Fresno City College: "We knew about the injustice and poverty intellectually, but we had to feel it before it became meaningful." Bob Brower, who teaches at New York State University's Urban Center in Brooklyn, learned firsthand about ghetto justice by spending an afternoon in court with his youthful tutor. "That damn judge," he said, "was handing down decisions he made before he ever saw the facts. It was like processing hamburger meat, just put it in the grinder...
...spreading to the world of business. A new generation-confident, iconoclastic and thoroughly professional -has entered the nation's corporations. The young managers are steeped in the computer and case-history techniques of business schools, and they sometimes believe that they know more than their bosses. Older businessmen feel challenged and often bemused by what seems to be a paradoxical mixture of avarice and altruism in the corporate newcomers. The younger men, who have grown up in an era of affluence and clearly enjoyed the luxuries of suburbia, claim to reject traditional incentives. As Gordon Grand, president of Olin...
...social responsibility in both his job and his life. Martin Gerstel, 27, a founder of Alza Corp., a California pharmaceutical research firm, argues: "It is not good enough any more just to be a manager, to do a good job making and selling candy bars. You have to feel that the product or service coming out of your organization is really important to society." Other young managers demand time off from their jobs to do consulting for black businessmen or to assist in urban development programs. They prefer to work for companies involved in projects such as pollution control...