Word: havens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Haar, who met with Carter two weeks ago, says he is encouraged by the amount of input his group has been granted thus far, although "they haven't taken everything we've recommended into consideration...
Your article "The Unmaking of a President" [Aug. 30] makes Bennington College sound like a haven for immoral relationships and gossip. Bennington is a fine school. The educational policies have always been progressive, and we hope to keep them that...
Behaviorist Dorothy Tennov of Connecticut's University of Bridgeport says narcissism is becoming a common diagnosis because "therapists seldom see virgins-people who haven't been to a therapist before. The people who go are a relatively small group who become therapy junkies." Others insist that today's narcissism is far broader, a cultural phenomenon growing out of two seemingly competing features of the 1960s and 1970s, rising personal affluence and deepening individual power lessness. The late Marxist sociologist Theodor Adorno took what is probably the darkest view. Capitalism, he maintained, causes such alienation that "narcissistic merger...
BLUE-COLLAR WORKERS. From auto workers to postmen, union leaders are endorsing Carter and assigning volunteers to register new voters and pound pavements. Boasts Thomas Bradley, head of the Metropolitan Baltimore Council of AFL-CIO Unions: "I haven't seen such unanimity among different unions since the Johnson-Goldwater election." This year, union help will be particularly valuable because what labor does on its own is not subject to the new federal election spending limits...
Died. Luther A. Weigle, 95, dean of the Yale Divinity School (1928-49); in New Haven, Conn. He was chairman of the committee that wrote the Revised Standard Version of the Bible (1938-52), using new translations of ancient texts and updating the King James Version to modern usage ("mortify" became "put to death...