Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effects of sexual decisions, he said, "used to be symbolized by pregnancy." Now because of such things as the pill, "the responsibility takes a much more personal, sociological, social turn. To enter into a relationship like this with another person is to begin a mutual history that is inextricable...
...these decisions, Cox said, cannot be made on the basis of "right or wrong." Sexuality has meaning in itself, he insisted, and unless a person can deal with it, "the little question of right or wrong can't be dealt with...
...students of development is what determines readiness to be motivated. Why did the community garbage cleanup work in Barrio Miraflores and fail in another barrio in the center of town? And why did the Brooks complete projects when other Volunteers could not? One answer may lie in the person of the director of the Casa del Obrero, a dynamic and dedicated man. Without at least one well placed ally in the local power structure, many Volunteers spend their time pushing on a string...
...tight. And in his peculiar, affecting way, Clay childishly dreams of lovely Edens: "The type of house I like would be all glass on the front and on one side, like those modern motels you see-Holiday Inns, and I want nothing but goooooooold carpets. When the average person walks in it'll be like being in heaven, dreamland. My children will be born in the hereafter...
...branding a person an "administrator" at Harvard may be consigning him--implicitly--to the ranks of the unacceptable or the inferior: if he is at Harvard and he is any good, why is he in the bureaucracy? The fact is that he may not be any good. There are dull people in the Harvard Administration, just like there are dull people on the Faculty and in the student body; many of them are satisfied with the repetition of their daily jobs and, moreover, probably perform well at them. Like most administrators. Monro can take the routine in hand and enjoyit...