Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...disabled person I don't demand any special consideration. I just want an equal opportunity to share in the programs and activities that my able-bodied peers enjoy. I want people to look beyond the wheelchair and see the person in it, to focus less on my disability and more on my abilities...
...have already been made. One example: Boston Federal Judge Frank H. Freedman's order banning hiring of white firemen until the percentage of blacks and Hispanics approximates their 23% ratio in the Boston population. Nor is there likely to be much impact on voluntary affirmative action programs that focus on equal rather than preferential treatment. Still, notes one Justice Department official, lawyers asked to help set up affirmative action programs are "telling their clients to sit tight" and wait for the Bakke decision. Said the official: "The lawyers are telling them they could be subject to reverse-discrimination suits...
...more obvious her special attention to Momo at the expense of the other children becomes. As he grows older not only does he become more convinced that what his Moslem mentor Monsieur Hasil says is true--to live you have to love something or someone--and he begins to focus that love on Madame Rosa...
...those who do work they would never want to do again -vending pretzels, for example-find a year or two off to be a positive experience," notes Princeton Assistant Dean Richard G. Williams. Adds Yale Dean of Undergraduate Studies Martin Griffin: "Students come back with at least marginally clearer focus and a clear head." Often it is the students themselves who hesitate, concerned about parental opposition, the difficulty of obtaining a decent job, and the tuition increases they will face upon return. Says Williams: "Students spend more time worrying about whether to leave or not than about what they will...
While he does branch out in new directions--different research methods and a broader focus--Levinson is also clearly following in the wake of the psychoanalytic school of thought. Drawing on the work and concepts of Freud, Jung, Erikson and William James, among others, he attempts to generalize their ideas to include other times of life besides childhood and other crises and reorientations besides the Oedipal dilemma. Fortunately, Levinson also is more favorable to sociological sorts of questions and researches than are his more theoretical psychoanalytic counterparts, and therefore he tends to live less in a world of mental models...