Word: personalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been abandoned by the U.S. The President said that the hostages have not been allowed to bathe or change their clothes, that some have been punished for speaking and that others have been threatened at pistol point. Said Carter: "This is a reprehensible thing, a disgrace to every person who believes in civilization or decency." At the State Department, officials issued a statement demanding that Iran permit a || neutral observer to check on the hostages. Hodding Carter, the dels partment's spokesman, told reI porters: "All the hostages have not been seen, and we have no way of knowing...
...teaching machines. As teachers they can form bonds of a sort-friendships?-with their pupils. And though two or more human beings can sometimes play against each other in computer games, it is clear to anyone who has tried the machines that the most fascinating interaction is between one person and one computer. Computer gaming, and learning, are solitary activities that do not seem solitary. The computer toys are starting to teach their owners not only a new kind of thinking, but what may amount to a strange new way of socializing. Says J. Fred Bucy, president of Texas Instruments...
...heiress and stepdaughter of Jacqueline Onassis, has turned over to her estranged third husband, former Soviet Maritime Executive Sergei Kauzov, by way of closing the books on an unhappy 15-month marriage. She hated their Moscow apartment even though Kauzov, as a worker and husband of a notable foreign person, was allowed more space than most Muscovites. He was discomfited by her idle pleasures, including those lazy, sunny lunches on Skorpios. Said one of her chums: "How could he, for instance, accept eating under a parasol held for him by a servant dressed all in white?" Christina's whirl...
...thought she was rather shrill. She's become much more thoughtful, much more serious, also much more compassionate." Goodman is not a columnist who strives for Delphic detachment. "You can't be an anonymous, amorphous 'voice of authority,' " she believes. "You have to establish a person who can be trusted, who is reasonable, who is honest." Her columns touch readers in a very personal way, like a reassuring squeeze of the hand, and at least 100 write her letters every week. Says Mary Jo Meade of Conway, Ark., editor of the Log Cabin Democrat...
Gill said she receives more important information for the application process when she interviews students in person, adding "Harvard students are intelligent enough to research the scholarships sources on their...