Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Providence was particularly hard hit. With main roads impassable after the 26-in. snowfall, Governor J. Joseph Garrahy ordered all Rhode Island businesses, except for grocery stores, to close. Not until this week was the state expected to return to normal. By comparison, the blizzard left New York City paralyzed for a mere 24 hours and entirely spared the Midwest, which was still digging out from a late January blizzard, that region's worst in a century...
...normal political terms, Califano's job would be considered wall-to-wall frustration. "I love it," he says with a grin, running his stubby hand through his hair as he prepares to rush off to another fray. He is constantly visible, magically at the focal point, part family counselor, physician, lawyer and preacher...
...issue-as a new survey by Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality shows. The journal sent questionnaires to 10,000 members of the A.P.A., and compiled the first 2,500 responses. Of those answering, 69% said they believed "homosexuality is usually a pathological adaptation, as opposed to a normal variation," 18% disagreed and 13% were uncertain. Similarly, sizable majorities said that homosexuals are generally less happy than heterosexuals (73%) and less capable of mature, loving relationships (60%). A total of 70% said homosexuals' problems have more to do with their own inner conflicts than with stigmatization by society at large...
Dartmouth's Winter Carnival seems to be the only way that the school can get normal people to come up there during the year...
...make the lives of the roughly 35 children of masters and resident tutors living in Harvard Houses very different from the standard childhood experience. Very young children who have seen little outside Harvard are strongly molded by their surroundings, and their parents must make special efforts to provide as "normal" an environment as possible for them. Because each family experience is unique, the four families described below represent only a sampling of lifestyles, rather than an attempt to draw conclusions...