Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would have required $2,000,000 more by the August convention; yet contributions were becoming scarce. Johnson, Hall and other Romney advisers decided that withdrawal was the only feasible course; no recovery seemed possible in Wisconsin, Nebraska or Oregon. They relayed their prognosis to the candidate in a late-night meeting at Boston's Ramada Inn. Romney slept on it, and by the time he finished breakfast next morning his mind was made up to quit...
Next stop was the opening reception of the Governors' Conference. Rockefeller and Wife Happy made a suitably late entrance at 8 p.m. and immediately dominated the scene. Newsmen and politicians alike scrambled toward the couple as if Rockefeller had not only announced but won. Connecticut Governor John Dempsey got lacerated by a wild camera. Rockefeller gallantly dabbed the blood from Democrat Dempsey's brow with his handkerchief...
...downs of the U.S. birth rate (see chart) have experts pondering the mysteries of cause and effect. After both World Wars, there was a predictable surge after servicemen returned from overseas. But how to account for the drop during the prosperous 1920s and the affluent late '50s and '60s? The lowering birth rate has nothing to do with fertility, says Natality Statistics Chief Arthur A. Campbell; in fact, women are proving more fertile than the mothers of 30 years ago (88 babies for each 1,000 women of childbearing age v. 76 a generation...
...western societies as late as the 18th century, and in many societies even today, the transition from childhood to adulthood has been early, brief, and coercively controlled by inflexible rites of passage or apprenticeships. In these societies, adolescence, as we define it, rarely can occur. One of the extraordinary psychological achievements of industrial and post-industrial societies has been the gradual opening of an opportunity for a real adolescence to a great number of less privileged and less talented young men and women, with all of the rich possibilities for continued development this opening brings. What we have...
...tends to justify himself on the ground of validity of his "identity crisis," and on this basis, to demand acceptance and even succor. In a way, this perverse reaction points up Erikson's meaning which is in no way invalidated by its abuse. For Erikson points to the late adolescent's subjectivity, his seclusiveness, his rebellion against his environment as well as the opposites of these traits--his striving for intellectual understanding and objectivity, his quest for all-embracing companionship, his search for answers from the adult world. In the presence of such routine inner turmoil, emotional stress...