Word: formals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some psychologists go further and challenge the very idea that emotional skills can or should be taught in any kind of formal, classroom way. Goleman's premise that children can be trained to analyze their feelings strikes Johns Hopkins' McHugh as an effort to reinvent the encounter group: "I consider that an abominable idea, an idea we have seen with adults. That failed, and now he wants to try it with children? Good grief!" He cites the description in Goleman's book of an experimental program at the Nueva Learning Center in San Francisco. In one scene, two fifth-grade...
...Gala Ball takes place just a few weeks before the annual CityStep Benefit Ball, which has traditionally been the only Harvard-wide formal...
Limpa-Amara said that because the CityStep organizers had not been informed of the council's plans to host a Harvard-wide formal until it was announced to the whole campus. "It was kind of a surprise to us all and we're doing the best...
Like everyone in the prison, the women have been accused of genocide but none has had a formal court hearing due to the shambles that mass murder and war left of Rwanda's justice system...
...There's a lengthy oath about observing the Constitution and the laws of the Commonwealth. It's a formal ceremony in which everybody raises their right hand, and does, in fact, swear paragraph by paragraph," he said...