Word: session
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abstractions. But this does not mean they are anti-intellectual, any more than it means that the medieval scholastic is a true intellectual. Often, just the opposite is the case: we've all had times when we've felt that we've learned far more from a good bull-session than we have from a lecture...
...been in the process of getting sick," one of the girls said. "Every move you made and every feeling you had had helped make you what you were now--unacceptable to the world." Another Cliffie described her therapy as "a steel claw tearing open my scabs . . . . During each session my hands shook and I could taste snot in my mouth." For some there was an irritating sense of disconnection, a feeling that while their pasts were being microscopically examined, they were wasting their present lives and shortchanging their futures. "Once someone gave me a CRIMSON," one boy said...
...aide worker, they begin to discover that actually, they have a lot of feelings that they didn't know about. The group may point it out to them or the patient may point it out to them by refusing to see them one week after they've missed a session, and they hadn't thought they were that important...
Faced with the clear threat of a state wide walkout in October, Kirk agreed to call a special session of the legislature. That session began Jan. 29 and ended two weeks ago, after passing a bill providing for about $250 million in new taxes (on beer, liquor, cigarettes and other sales). State officials argued that the new appropriations would provide teachers with an average increase of $1,340 per year. Despite this generous offer, the F.E.A. insisted that the funds would not provide any real improvement in classroom conditions; too much of the new tax money, the association says...
...teaching broker, the rewards can be considerable. Firms have found that 35% to 40% of their students sign up for accounts. In Cincinnati, Thomas Shuff of Hayden, Stone Inc., has started an eight-week, non-credit course on investments at the city university. Last week, at the first session, he was pleasantly surprised to find his classroom packed with 200 possible accounts. Even unions, with big pension funds and increasingly affluent members, are eager to learn about the market. Reynolds was recently asked by a New York local of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. to give a four-session course...