Word: impressive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of the slave means crime, he was in jail now and then. He tried to direct my great energy into the proper form of protest. He invented long simple allegories that always pictured the white politicians as animals...He and my mother went to great pains to impress on me that it was the worst form of niggerism to hook and jab, cut and stab at other blacks...
Nevertheless. B.F. Skinner's example of past successes of his concepts [Sept. 20] fail to impress me. I cannot comment on mental hospitals, jails or business firms, but as one of this nation's secondary-school students, I can testify that his principles have failed in the high schools of at least one average-sized community. For one thing, students recognize attempts to alter their behavior and meet them with resentment comparable to that created by punishment. Furthermore, if incentives are at all successful, the reward situation soon becomes the norm, deviations from which are interpreted as punishment...
Since the Big Green used to play all its Harvard and Yale games away from home, Ivy football weekends are a rarity. The young lassies will be in Hanover today and the Indians will want to impress them with their physical prowess. The fog rises slowly in the Hanover Valley this time of year, but when it does burn off in the afternoon the green scoreboard against the colored leaves of fall will read a beautiful, Dartmouth...
...Fred Branfman, Daniel Ellsberg '52 and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) all dealt with what the Veteran described as the widening gap between the reality of America's involvement in Indochina and the picture which the Johnson and Nixon administrations have attempted to impress upon the American public...
...unconvincingly stagy about Greene's spiritual hypochondria, and about his insistence on the personal angst and failure that he has endured. It is almost as if, like many of his characters, he believes that worldly failure is a sign of God's grace and is trying to impress Someone other than the reader...