Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gesell sees growth as an uninterrupted, continuous process from the moment of conception to old age; even the sudden change from life in the womb to the world outside is, to Gesell, only an uncommonly striking and abrupt phase of this continuous development. And he includes mental growth along with physical growth. "It is probable," he writes, "that all mental life has a motor basis and a motor origin. The non-mystical mind [i.e., the mind when not engaged in pure reverie] must always take hold. Even in the rarefied realms of conceptual reasoning we speak of intellectual grasp . . . Thinking...
...this argument the lawyer-moralist has a stern retort. First of all, punishment is an administrative necessity-an indispensable safeguard of civilized society. More important, "to condemn and punish offenders, to insist on their responsibility ... is a phase of ... bracing strictness which has an irreplaceable educational value . . . With any individual, simply to accept his temperament and character as they are, and his impulses as they come, is death to moral progress . . . It is also disastrous to lead [a delinquent] to believe that he is more sinned against than sinning and to imply that strenuous moral effort on his own part...
...mill owners. At the same time, U.S. capitalism itself was undergoing basic changes of attitude and method. More & more industries discovered that well-paid employees did better work and bought a lot more of everybody's products. It is the South's good fortune that the second phase of its industrial expansion comes in a period of enlightened industrial relations unprecedented in history...
...achieve this goal the Office of Student Employment, mostly under pressure provided by the far-reaching Monro, has evolved the totally new student porter plan. Still in its experimental phase, the porter plan is now giving steady employment at 80 cents an hour for approximately 70 men. If successful, the porter scheme will enable the Office to give incoming freshmen assurance that they will get needed jobs...
...such results, says Father Carey, are only one phase of Xavier's mission. It is not enough merely to teach men to protect themselves. More important is to instill in them the Christian principle of helping others. "The object of the school," says he, "is not only to train men for intelligent leadership. It is to promote God's law on the dignity and brotherhood...