Word: parents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With one of the nation's highest tuitions ($1,680), Bard can squeeze little more out of its students, whose total costs per year are now a hefty $2,500. Last week Bard's onetime parent, Columbia, calmly turned the trick by boosting college tuition 21% to $1,450. Reason: "the imperative need" for increasing faculty salaries. A Columbia full professor's minimum pay will now climb...
...USIMINAS steel plant (annual capacity: 500,000 tons), U.S., Canadian, French and Israeli interests are partners with Brazilians in seven cement plants. In Argentina, Kaiser Industries, which makes 2,500 vehicles a month, is owned 51% by Argentine stockholders, 16% by the Argentine Air Force, 33% by the U.S. parent firm...
...feminine charm before health and life and refuse testosterone treatment. But recent research, notably at Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute, has shown that when the body breaks down natural hormones, many of them have chemical descendants which are surprisingly potent, and sometimes in different ways from their parent substances...
Does this mean that, as in popular fiction, the parents are guilty? Emphatically not, says Bergler. "No parent-not even the parent who directed the affairs of the nursery foolishly-has the power to induce neurosis in his children." (But many a parent wants to assume the blame, because every parent also has some masochism...
Indeed, the parent's worst mistake may have been his softness. Every person craves some punishment; if he cannot get it at home, he goes to extremes to seek it. As Bergler told one homosexual patient, who was rarely spanked as a child: "You had to work hard to get your beatings at home. The generations brought up in the era of 'progressive education' faced the same problem...