Word: prove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many came to distrust people who wanted to "change" other people, suspecting that many of these reformers were trying to prove the superiority of their goals to themselves as much as to their subjects. In social service, they wanted to learn as well as teach--open new opportunities to Negroes in Roxbury, or criminals in local prisons, but a so absorb new perspectives and perceptions. Their doubts about the "system" thus led them to seek wisdom from those who had been kicked out of it, the men and women who had been denied a place in that great race...
...everyone who neither pays nor is paid to read them. Such are Barbara Garson and her skitlet MacBird (I eschew the exclamation point!)--a document, a gadget, a pseudo-cerebral mummers' play in moral blackface. The fact that MacBird's concerns are nearly as unmemorable as its era may prove to be won't modify the play's appeal for future historians; nor can it extend MacBird's predictable stage life beyond eighteen months...
...scholarship. There's plenty they can do -- the academic community needs both political science and politics, expertise in both theory and application, to effectively teach or research in the political realm, or to contribute to higher standards of public service. But all this may take some time to prove...
...course I'm right," the judge said. "I'll prove it. How much do you drink...
...Anaheim program were obviously interested in morality and social values. Cook, who used to teach the course himself, tells how it tries to prepare both sexes for the "traps" of dating. The message to the boys is that they need not make a pass at a girl to prove themselves masculine, and to the girls that they need not say yes to remain popular. Says Cook: "We try to give them answers for all the old con games." Without explicit moralizing, the course relies heavily on cautionary tales about venereal disease and the consequences of unwanted pregnancies. A typical deterrent...