Word: stress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a former lecturer in the clinical psychology program at Harvard, the Social Relations Department with its strong research emphasis opposed the Boulder ideal. Despite the addition of practical training, Harvard's graduate program continued the Plympton Street Clinic's stress on research. Students did supervised fieldwork in therapy centers such as the Massachusetts Mental Health Center and the Fernald State School, but they were trained mainly as scientists...
...when I'm the candidate, I run the campaign," did not trust the Republican Party professionals to handle his re-election drive. He wanted a separate organization. A group of admen and pollsters were consulted; they found Nixon's personal popularity was so low that they advised that he stress the office rather than his name. Thus his organization became the Committee for the Re-Election of the President. It was largely composed of Administration officials, who were relatively inexperienced in politics but who had demonstrated their total loyalty to Nixon...
...going to be tremendous," he says. "She's going to have all Women's Lib on her back saying 'Please, please, don't let this old over-the-hill guy beat you.' She has a history of nerves, of choking. I perform better under stress and strain...
Ginsberg pushes the question of reality a little too far with his media saturation-bombing. Almost to the point where one wonders if he isn't chronicling the fall of an American poet. If he is delicately trying to stress the depravity of America's mindless participation in an "Automatic Electronic War," his point is made too well. It's very easy to imagine his readers putting down these poems to go watch television...
Environmentalists are convinced that high costs alone will not be enough to discourage excessive use of energy. Thus they were dismayed when President Nixon's energy message failed to stress conservation as an important tool in blunting the crisis. Nonetheless, an unlikely coalition of industrial, political and environmental leaders are all calling for measures to decrease the American appetite for energy. Senator Henry M. Jackson, who this week will introduce an energy-conservation bill in the Senate, puts it this way: "We need to ask whether we must despoil the hills in Appalachia to air-condition sealed-glass towers...