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...reverse, i.e., the masking of disturbance by adolescence the goal of all interventions with adolescents, then should be to strengthen and confirm them in their development. Some adolescents may need special help, but the purpose of this help should not be to "cure" them of their "illness" (much less of their adolescence); rather it should be to restore to the adolescent his capacity to proceed in his growth without special help. Too much help can be enfeebling, just as too much understanding without respect can be undermining. Even today, much of what passes for "counseling" of adolescents ends up short...
...without producing a bigger war; I reject the arguments of some to use nuclear weapons. But we must also end it without producing another war. Many of the peace proposals could end the war, but they would produce another war--possibly in Asia or in other areas; this would strengthen the hawks in Red China and the Soviet Union...
...financial starvation" that faces his college, Summerskill complained that "the political leadership is tuned to the people's fears of increased taxation, of violence in the streets, of dissent on the campus. No state leader encourages the people to have pride in their great university, to build and strengthen the fine state colleges...
...holdouts are showing some give -and take. Brigham Young lets its professors accept federal research grants. The reason is not simply, as President Wilkinson argues, that "the research we give is worth every cent we get," but also that the grants help him attract competent scholars to strengthen a generally mediocre faculty. Even Baptist opposition is softening. Such Baptist schools as Baylor, Wake Forest and Mercer have risked the ire of some church officials by accepting aid. Says M. Norvel Young, president of Los Angeles' Pepperdine College, a wavering holdout: "We'd like to paddle our own canoe...
Though politics is the art of compromise, the bill owes much to the stubbornness of one Congresswoman from St. Louis. Democratic Representative Leonor Sullivan, an eight-term veteran who lost battle after battle to strengthen the measure in committee hearings, carried her lonely but vigorous fight to the floor of the House, finally won with an overwhelming 382-to-4 vote...