Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really delighted," says Weiland about the re-alignment. "Bill knows the game inside out and has a keen interest in it. And Gene has worked with me at my hockey school. I'm looking forward to having him help with the varsity. Having two fellows like this in our program can't help but benefit Harvard hockey...
...King is now gone, like John F. Kennedy, like so many others destroyed by America. But the movement that he helped inspire continues and grows and will not be stopped. We are fortunate today to have with us the woman who has courageously stepped forward to help fill the vast gulf that his death leaves, a woman who has taken upon herself to be mother to four young children and at the same time to replace her husband as minister to the soul of a troubled society. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my privilege to introduce to you, Mrs. Coretta...
...deception was carried out by Pygmalion's authors, Harvard Social Psychologist Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson, former principal of South San Francisco's Spruce School. They told the teachers that a new test could predict which slow-learning students were likely to "show an unusual forward spurt of academic and intellectual functioning." The exam, actually a routine but unfamiliar intelligence test, was given to all pupils. Teachers were then told which students had displayed a high potential for improvement. The names were actually drawn...
...significant that Eldridge Cleaver, a Black Panther who is the presidential candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party, was invited to lecture to a group of summer trainees at the Xerox Corp. Cleaver told his audience to "liberate" a Xerox machine or two for the Panthers. He looked forward, ultimately, he said to a "black finger on the nuclear trigger." Xerox executives endured the harangue in silence. Whispered a Negro trainee: "Nothing is too insulting for white liberals to take...
...demonstrating aides reinstated, Bay had to admit that the aides had a case. "If this were my own private business," he said, "I'd go broke in a week. This just isn't any way to run a railroad. We have moved the aide's responsibilities forward without giving him comparable recognition." The main problem, as Bay saw it, was the huge staff turnover. Except for physicians, one-third of Topeka State's employees have been there for less than a year, and one-fourth for less than six months! The reason for the turnover...