Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...president, in his inaugural address, also spoke about the relationship of universities to society. He said that M.I.T. holds an important position because of the increasing importance to society to technology...
Pusey spoke about the relationship between Harvard and M.I.T. and referred to himself as "spokesman for an older sister who, like Moses' sibling, 'stood at a distance' to see what would happen when the baby was found among the reeds." The conclusion of the simile drew a laugh when Pusey said that now, "The Institute no longer seems far downstream, and the baby institution--that's you-- is obviously doing very well...
...That relationship began in 1954 when he signed on for his first regular TV appearance as host and master of ceremonies for the weekly General Electric Theater. He stayed on for eight years. His duties involved frequent trips to G.E. plants around the country, making an interminable series of addresses (Reagan figures he spent 4,000 hours at G.E.-plant microphones) that went far toward honing his present-day skill with an audience...
Theorists about child raising have abandoned other old psychological certainties, including the overriding importance of toilet training. "The Scott-tissue theory of personality is out of fashion," says Harvard Psychologist Gordon Allport. Now there is more general concern about "total relationship" between parent and child. Sometimes the children themselves become ardent pop-psychers. "No one is more adept than a child at using psychological terms as a substitute for reality," says Chicago Child Psychiatrist Dr. Ner Littner. "Nine-and ten-year-olds chatter away quite happily about sibling rivalry, talking of the urge they have to kill an older brother...
...today the civil rights movement, the war on poverty, the moral decadence of American youth, new rehabilitation techniques, and the Supreme Court are individually and in combination being held responsible for making our streets, parks and homes less safe. It is, of course, important to try to understand these relationships, although it is very difficult to show that increases in crime are or are not "caused" by such factors. But as a starter, those who seek to establish such a relationship should be sure the trend itself has been properly identified and interpreted...