Word: pushiest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...perfect example of the questionable ethical lessons Harvard teaches. There is something very dangerous about a culture willing to hold up Erikson's lucky five as its exemplars of correct behavior. He was looking for a certain kind of student, and he got what he was looking for: the pushiest and most absolutely self-assured first-year students. Harvard spits out a lot of people who've been trained to act this way, and I worry for the world it looses them...
...contests raise troubling questions, though, about whether they are ultimately for the benefit of the child--or the parent. Cohen, who has judged hundreds of events, has seen the pushiest of stage parents ruin the event for a child, hollering or even hitting her for not performing well. "A lot of these parents are so serious about it that they take away all the pleasure from the kids," Cohen said. "If the child loses, they feel like they let the parent down." LaCour too has seen it all. "I've seen mothers take young girls right off the stage before...
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