Word: habits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impossible, and suggests these criteria by which they can judge whether a prospective patient offers reasonable hope of cure: he must have inner guilt feelings that can be put to use in treatment; he must accept the treatment voluntarily and actively want to change; he must give up his habit of using homosexuality as a weapon against his family, which (unconsciously) he always hates. The analyst must not begin by attacking the homosexuality head on-or the patient will at once cry that he is being persecuted. Yet the analyst must convince him that his self-damaging tendencies will engulf...
...general, they also do well with their studies: they have been valedictorians, class presidents and successful college students. Meanwhile, they learn to get over such "blindisms" as the habit of poking at their eyes, of sprawling in their seats (because they cannot see how sloppy they look), and walking with their heads bent low. But integration has not been a boon to the blind alone. "It works both ways," says First-Grade Teacher Wilba Bourgeois of New Orleans' Thomas Jefferson School: "It teaches the sighted to be kind and patient. It also challenges them. When they see a blind...
...sell a book"), and so did Satenstein's radio efforts with Reviewers Harry Hansen and Clifton Fadiman. Gradually, Satenstein decided that chasing after adults was largely a waste of time. "You've got to get to the children," says he. "The thing to sell is the reading habit early...
Last year, with funds from the book industry, Satenstein and a small group of colleagues started a national crusade to sell the reading habit. He organized the nonprofit Library Club of America, Inc. in Manhattan, hired Reading Specialist Frank Jennings of New Jersey's Bloomfield Junior High School to run it. Last fall the club began with experimental chapters in three of Manhattan's Lower East Side public schools. As the months passed, the movement spread to New Jersey, then started west. This week, after only a year of operation, the club has thousands of boys and girls...
...critics who had begun to fear that Rivera was now painting more out of habit than conviction, there were some reassuring touches. His Little Soviet Girl (see cut), a flaxen-haired, blue-eyed Muscovite, clutching her school case in the cold, was a real charmer. The two major oils in the show, People's Testimony and Defile, painted from the window of Rivera's room in Moscow's National Hotel and both depicting scenes in Red Square, caught the bleakness of Moscow's winter and the immensity of the square with some of his old dash...