Word: meanness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This does not mean that the 24-man admissions committee-composed of staff and a varying number of Faculty-has only to rate its 7000 applicants on "personality," and then simply accept the 1400 or so with the highest ratings; for example, no student will be accepted unless the committee believes he can at least get C's here. But it does mean that an outsider, given only the computer data and asked to guess which applicants the committee will accept, will come close if he chooses those with the highest personal ratings, tossing in about 100 students...
...mean to reproach you, or even to give you the impression that I think you'd care if I did. But I do believe that the writer of the story on Vidal and me turned in a remarkable performance. "When they fence on television or in type, bitchiness erodes their polish and learned discourse dissolves into tantrums." The man who wrote that sentence doesn't know the difference between a tantrum and a psalm. The writer then goes on to stick into my mouth an unpleasant sentence I never wrote (the author of that sentence is clearly designated...
What seems to be happening is that, more and more, the American black is reaching out for new and less violent tools to achieve his aims. This does not mean that a restless teen-ager with rock or rifle or a tactless and brutal policeman cannot still ignite a mob in any ghetto. But rioting is no longer the black community's instant, reflex response. Through a new alchemy of awareness, the word has passed on what Malcolm X called "the wire," the black grapevine: "Cool it." The internal sanctions of the ghetto now work against spontaneous combustion...
...Psychoanalysis has certainly suggested that we should not suppress our inner rages but should face them," Bettelheim writes. "But we were only expected to face them in thought, and only in the safely structured treatment situation. This has been misapplied by large numbers of the educated middle classes to mean that aggression should always be expressed, and not just in thought. Accordingly, many children today do not learn to repress aggression enough...
Greater Fervor. The "local control" granted individual orders and convents will probably mean far greater future variety among orders that still basically think of themselves as "contemplative." But most convents will probably now be more alert to the world around them, said Redemptoristine Sister Gertrude Wilkinson last week in Woodstock, Md., where representatives from 57 women's contemplative communities in the U.S. and Canada were meeting to discuss mutual problems. "We are becoming more conscious of the sufferings, problems and joys of the world," she explained. "If you know what you are praying for, you pray with greater fervor...