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...Kenneth Keniston, Associate Professor of Psychology at Yale, will speak on "Youth: Change and Violence" at 8 p.m. tonight in Lowell Lecture Hall...
Technology heavily burdens the two-adult-or what anthropologists call the "nuclear"-family. Modern society demands what Yale Psychologist Kenneth Keniston calls "technological ego dictatorship," a talent for divided living that requires coolly rational behavior at work, reserving feeling for home. Wholeness is often elusive. "Home is where the heart is," but more than one-third of U.S. mothers work at least part time, and some fathers hardly see the kids all week. According to Psychiatric Social Worker Virginia Satir, the average family dinner lasts ten to 20 minutes; some families spend as little as ten minutes a week together...
Despite their vaunted hang-ups, Yale's Kenneth Keniston, 36, a Rhodes scholar who has concentrated on student psychology, concludes that most of today's college students are a dedicated group of "professionalists." In the meritocracy of the '60s and '70s, he says, "no young man can hope simply to repeat the life pattern of his father; talent must be continually improved." According to Keniston, only about one student in ten deviates from the spartan code of professionalism. "Few of these young men and women have any doubt that they will one day be part...
...Roots of Alienation. Keniston visualizes and defines the professionalists as the bulk of students, but he believes that the emergence of this type has been paralleled by a new kind of "student dissent, marginality and misery." He divides these students into three groups, all of them in a sense "professionalists manqu...
...college slang such as "come on like," "make like" and "turn on." The compliment "cool" indicates this "same tenuous connection between deed and inclination." Though most of his life is centered on acquiring expertness, he seeks meaning in his personal relationships, and is in, this sense primarily what Keniston calls a "privatist," seeking human bonds to find identity and self-definition. The old question, to bed or not to bed, has been superseded by an "effort to define the precise circumstances under which sexual relations are meaningful and honorable." The professional^ takes the relations "between the sexes earnestly and even...