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John, Pat's son, who seems to be in his early twenties, sits quietly at the end of the table throughout the conversation, less eager to laud Harvard for its kindness and generosity. "At Eliot and Kirkland House, it's different than it is here," he says. "Over there they treat you like nothing. The kids come in and they don't even speak. They ignore you. They just point or grunt to let you know what they want," he says. The other workers seem disconcerted by this statement. "Well, it's true at some of these other Houses, students...
...comparisons, evaluations, theories, prognoses, cheers and groans, condemnation and approval. They are paraded in front of millions of eyes as both the finest specimens of their various races and cultures, and also as examples of America's most pressing domestic problems. Statistics about them are published to both laud their increasing participation in higher education and to decry their still inadequate enrollment; to both proclaim that they have surmounted educational deficiencies and that they are hopelessly incapable of competing within the highest of academic spheres. They are tested, touted, tracked, and tantalized with visions of glorious opportunity...
Reagan delivered a capsuled version of his intended acceptance speech. He warned in moving terms of the erosion of liberty in the world, the dangers of nuclear annihilation and the need for America to lead the fight against both. Not once did he laud his party's newly nominated candidate for President...
...laud the hundreds of thousands of CBers who have polluted the air waves with their gibberish, but you mention only in passing that the FCC is having problems with these people. What you fail to say is that the band was designed to be used by the increasing number of businesses that want to be able to communicate with their people in the field. If people want to get on the air just to "chew the rag," they could become radio amateurs (hams). That would give them not just one band but many more...
...constructs a meticulous chronological listing of his life's events. (A short section at the end which backtracks to follow the thread of psychological curiosity through his life is an exception.) But Skinner has a purpose for the resulting "and then" paratactical tedium of his style. Even his detractors laud his achievements in the development of teaching machines and in animal training, and grudgingly admit the success of behavior modification with autistic children and the mentally ill. But the concept of a genetically-and environmentally-programmed existence, of an a-responsible, un-free person rebounding from punishment to reward...