Word: present
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Certainly many dropout types fit Blaine's description-as do many adults. But to dismiss hippies as people who haven't grown up is simplistic in the extreme. Surely a life style which stresses enjoyment of the present instead of planning for the future can attract people who aren't emotional infants...
...they cast about for risks to take . . . ." The other came right from Freud: hippies act like "infants and children [who] demand instant gratification . . . demanding from drugs an instant and constant happiness." They are immature people, for "if maturity comes, it brings with it the capacity to tolerate some present pain in order to achieve a greater pleasure at some later time...
...Raise wages of all present 'painter's helpers' immediately to the same level as that of the painters...
...guard, an off-duty policeman, then takes the suspect to an office on the second floor of the Coop where, with no one else present, he interrogates him and asks him to sign a form which says in part, "When I took the above property, I did so with the intent to appropriate it to my own use, without intending to pay for it. . I make this admission after having been advised that I need make no statement." After the suspect has agreed to sign the statement, the guard brings in an officer of the Coop to witness...
...Because present draft laws make severing a procedure often less lenient than that which might be meted out by a Cambridge court, and because Harvard's in loco parentis role is under fire on many fronts, some members of the Ad Board favor turning shoplifters over to civil authorities. Others say that most shoplifters are students in need of help who should not be made subject to a possible criminal record...