Word: processes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nursed it from a modest college to a farflung, football-happy giant. As Assistant Secretary, Hannah had a hand in implementing desegregation in the armed forces. No fire-eater, he once expressed cautious sympathy for "local conditions," calling integration a goal to be reached by an "evolutionary process...
...didn't get a degree." But a simple bachelor's degree is not really enough. At Harvard, where only one in 100 students now qualifies for the once accepted gentleman's average of C, seven out of ten intend to go on to graduate school-a process that a previous generation might have condemned as going from one ivory tower to another. "What worries us is this," says one Harvard professor. "In his drive to make the graduate school, the current undergraduate is very serious. But that's the wrong reason for being serious...
...admired, but evokes no hysteria. Students still delve into Freud, but they are just as apt to be worried about the psychology of The Organization Man. The one new American author who has something approaching a universal appeal is J. D. Salinger, with his picture of the tortured process of growing...
Perhaps the Soviet breakthrough, in prompting considerable soul-searching in America, may prove a welcome catalyst to the process of national maturity. Instead of scratching its head and, in angry confusion, dubbing the situation "a puzzlement," the country may gain a new confidence and balance. The price for failing to learn this lesson now may be higher later...
After that disaster, she broke with her father, stopped playing the piano and started the long process of turning herself into a normal human being. She went to the University of California, fell in love with a fellow student, and at 19 told her father that they were getting married. He flew into a rage, threw them out of the house and shouted at her in the street as she fled: "You lousy little bitch! You'll never play two notes again without...