Word: lessness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cause of premature death is premature birth, the reason for which is usually unknown except in cases of maternal illness. Prematurity as now defined is not necessarily birth before an elapsed gestation time of 280 days but birth, at any time, with a weight of 5¼ Ib. or less. For preemies, the first 28 days are especially hazardous. To care for them, University of Louisville Pediatrician Billy Andrews has devised an incubator setup so complex that medical students call it his physiology lab. Andrews maintains an around-the-clock watch on the preemies by taping up each one with...
White Americans not only misunderstand these cultural traits but are frequently annoyed by them-the volume of Negro voices, for example, which are often loud and boisterous because blacks are frequently less inhibited in public than whites. If a Negro youngster responds to a white teacher's scolding with a "Tsk, tsk," she will probably assume that the child is perhaps a little bit contrite. The black teacher, on the other hand, is more likely to recognize tongue clicking-possibly another African habit-as a sign of a youngster's deep resentment...
...What is the child to do? Sometimes blacks feel they are supposed to do something, but just what isn't clear-shuffle their feet, perhaps. Sometimes blacks find that if you move around a lot and say 'Yassa, boss,' it seems to make some white people less hostile...
...Cultural Mafia, proving the African link is less important than promoting greater understanding and tolerance of the special qualities of ghetto culture. Baratz, for example, argues that such well-intentioned programs as Head Start are doomed to failure because they implicitly seek to rob the Negro child of his uniqueness and absorb him into an alien white culture. "We have to meet the Negro in his world," he says, "explore his ghetto for its strengths, and understand the processes whereby this seemingly wicked environment sustains a viable culture." White America must not only learn to appreciate that culture, he argues...
...senior vice president for programming, feels that he did. With CBS in second place midseason, Dann decided to shift Hawaii Five-0 from its 8 p.m. Thursday time slot (where it started opposite Flying Nun and the second half of Daniel Boone) to 10 p.m. Wednesday (against the less formidable competition of The Outsider and a movie). As a result, Hawaii Five-0 climbed from a 26% share of the audience to 37%. Without that shift, NBC might have finished in first place...