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...undermining. Even today, much of what passes for "counseling" of adolescents ends up short-curcuiting adolescence by undercutting the questioning, rebellion, and search that should accompany adolescent experience. As more adequate "special help" becomes available for American youth, that help must seek to intensify, deepen, and in many cases, prolong adolescence, rather than simply to hasten the passage to adulthood...
...killing him, while he still retains vitality enough to withstand the most Draconian of operations. If the transplant should fail, he will certainly die. Thus the surgeons will, in effect, have killed him (as they might in any major operation), no matter how lofty their motive in trying to prolong his life and make it more satisfying...
...relieve the pressure, we prolong...
...Their lives are tied by flesh and blood to Viet Nam. Talk does not come cheap for them." Calling for unity, he predicted that "peace will come more quickly when the enemy of freedom finds no crack in our courage-no split in our resolve -and no encouragement to prolong his war in the shortness of our patience or the sharpness of our tongues...
Sunday, November 12 LOOK UP AND LIVE (CBS, 10:30-11 a.m.). How should we use atomic energy? Should we create, prolong or alter life? How do we educate for a technological society? In the search for answers to such difficult questions, man is faced with "Choice, the Imperative of Tomorrow." Part 2 of a series...