Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sanctuary counsellors admit all their difficulties: barriers of class, race, sex, and the inherent inequality of a counselor-client relationship. Refusing to see their work as social service, or themselves as professionals, they persist in trying to make ideals work in the most trying and disheartening practical situations. And quite often, they fail...
...number of image patterns persist and recur, forming a kind of psychograph of the way women are viewed in modern drama...
...official myth may persist: man is the thinking animal. But whether the problem is Viet Nam or population growth, homosexuality or the existence of God, he seems to be turning queasier and queasier at the prospect of reviewing his thoughts "just once more." Thinking seems less and less likely to solve his problems. Worse, thinking seems to have become the problem...
After five years of student militancy I suspect we should all be inured at the symbolic politics indulged in yesterday by the Negro students who confronted the Deans and President Bok over Harvard's Gulf Oil holdings. But I persist in thinking this kind of political behavior silly and irrelevant...
...paid transportation to the site, and even free green stamps just for showing up. Many developments are models of intelligent planning, from Titan Group's Yosemite Lakes Park in California to J.M. Huber Co.'s Beaver Cove on Maine's Moosehead Lake. But fraud and misrepresentation persist, and large swatches of unspoiled wilderness are being turned into tacky subdivisions...