Word: kindlier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...they have been dismissed from the game. "I know of no psychotic misconduct," Goffman has written, "that cannot be matched precisely in everyday life by the conduct of persons who are not psychologically ill nor considered to be so." Life in mental hospitals-"storage dumps" is one of his kindlier descriptions-also has its rituals. The patient who throws feces at an attendant, Goffman argues, is using a ceremonial idiom "that is as exquisite in its way as a bow from the waist. Whether he knows it or not, the patient speaks the same ritual language as his captors...
...other extreme are a few parents who introduce their children to pot in the home in the same way that countless parents start their children drinking. One San Francisco attorney turns on all three of his children, including his six-year-old. Still other parents respond by taking a kindlier view of early drinking, in hopes that their children will find liquor an acceptable alternative to pot. That ploy often fails, mainly because so many youths are convinced that marijuana is less harmful than "juice...
...office door in Montgomery says only: WALLACE CAMPAIGN. Campaign for what? George Wallace leaves no doubt. Whether in New Hampshire or under the kindlier shadow of Jefferson Davis' statue in his home state capital, Alabama's de facto Governor is convinced that his all-but-declared thirdparty presidential candidacy can decisively affect the outcome of the '68 election...
...questing, restless majority of the young may already be ahead of that issue. By the existential act of rejecting cogito, ergo sum for sum, ergo sum, they have taken on, willy-nilly, a vast commitment toward a kindlier, more equitable society. The young often seem romantics in search of a cause, rebels without raison d'etre. Yet in many ways they are markedly saner, more unselfish, less hag-ridden than their elders...
...people in Occupied Europe would risk death to hear news broadcasts from Britain or America-and never got over its early success. The format was never basically changed. Voice programs came to have, says one observer, the "sound of measured senility," or, in Voice Director John Chancellor's kindlier description, "an institutional sound...