Word: originality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though homosexuality may have its origin in early childhood, it is generally not until the beginning of adolescence that a boy gives overt signs of it. At this stage, responsibility lies most heavily upon the parents. They need to know that in every human personality there are both masculine and feminine traits, and that puberty, being a time of great stress and adjustment, is also a time for experimentation...
...Homosexuality is not an inherited taint. There is no reason to believe that there is even an inherited tendency or susceptibility to it. Nobody is born with it, and it is not glandular in origin.* It is not a disease in itself but is a symptom of an underlying emotional disorder. This disorder may be of any kind and any degree of severity. It may be a common neurosis that leaves the patient outwardly well enough to go about his affairs, and amenable to treatment if he chooses to accept it. Or the victim may be a psychopathic personality, with...
...origin of the movement, said Vilakazi, is partly a rejection of what has been called "the apostasy of the missionary churches" from the early simplicity of Christianity and of the first missionaries. But it is even more a manifestation of the hunger of the colored man to be free of white domination and stand on his own-"the creed of 'Africa for the Africans' as expressed in church terms...
...World and the West, Historian Arnold Toynbee suggested that faithless Western man stands a fair chance of getting his comeuppance from Russia and the East, but who knows?-maybe not. There was no such hemming and hawing from Physicist Charles Galton Darwin. The grandson of the author of The Origin of Species played the old Malthusian game in The Next Million Years, saw ahead nothing but vast increases of population and ultimate world starvation. In a worrying world, Darwin's horizon scanning seemed like a worrier's luxury...
Just to mention a few examples, Mr. Lowell's leadership and personal interest was largely responsible for the origin and early development of the tutorial system based on the principle of self-education under guidance. If he were alive today I know that Mr. Lowell would rejoice in the fact that in those departments having tutorial instruction, such instruction is now available to practically all students--honors as well as non-honors--and that the plan is integrated more closely than ever with the Houses. In his mind, the Houses were not to be merely pleasant places in which...