Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...upper-level English courses. He talked of their "insufferable dullness," lamenting "the absence of any imaginative involvement" on the part of the writer. The result: "commonplace topics and commonplace papers." In silghtly different terms, Professor William Alfred described what is essentially the same problem, noting the students' habit of suppressing their own perceptions and immediate responses, holding back what they think and feel. Rather, in writing term papers, students often try to write what they think will please the reader, asking themselves: What does he want us to feel? The immediate personal response is never cultivated, never expressed. It gets...
...boys aren't made to do something three times a week in their first year," he asserted, "they will get out of the habit" and will not participate in House athletics later...
Those Other Forces. Then Blough took the offensive. The causes of inflation, he declared, "are clearly associated with the fiscal, monetary, labor and other policies of Government"-a sharp dig at the Administration's spending policies and its habit of intervening in labor disputes all the way from the high seas to the Metropolitan Opera. The President's economic advisers, Blough charged, "seem to be assuming the role of informal price setters for steel-psychological or otherwise. But if for steel, what then for automobiles or rubber or machinery or electrical products or food or paper or chemicals...
...doctors are cold, uncaring fellows, heartlessly indifferent to the fact that little Priscilla's forehead feels hot or Grandma's arthritis is acting up. In Medical Economics, a Westwood. N.J.. pediatrician named Phoebe Hudson scoffs at this complaint. House calls, she says, "are just a bad habit." Her reasons...
...rebel Algerian F.L.N. last week abruptly turned left. After three years under the relatively benign leadership of Premier Ferhat Abbas, 61, an ex-druggist who speaks better French than Arabic and has a middle-class habit of falling asleep after a good dinner, control shifted to a clutch of hard-eyed terrorists who had survived street battles and mountain skir mishes in the seven-year war against the French...