Word: stressed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dean Sizer will go on teaching his course in "British and American Edu cation since 1870." But his real job lies in raising money, unifying the patchwork school and refocusing its mission. Sizer hopes to put even more stress on practice teaching, but in urban schools rather than the almost exclusively suburban schools that now feed off Harvard. Given the disarray of big-city schools-Boston's are a compelling example-it is high time for Harvard to help out. Happily, Sizer seems to be right on target...
...book that sets out to prove what was previously axiomatic had better be pretty strong on logic. A Stress Analysis of a Strapless Evening Gown annoyingly attempts to prove that scientists are human. Scientists may be reassured that they are human by the preface to this book, but non-scientists ought to remain unconvinced. All that A Stress Analysis demonstrates is that scientists can laugh or be laughed at, which argument confers the status of humanity equally upon hyenas...
Fortunately, the thirty-two essays in A Stress Analysis are neither so fatuous nor so foolish as the preface. Some are funny. In his autobiographical notes, Einstein wrote that "the essential in the being of a man of my type lies precisely in what he thinks and how he thinks, not in what he does or suffers." Scientific humor is mostly about their thought and the products of it: lot of it is word play. public: the comedy is over. Too bad that we have ended up in Hell...
...distressed by the ubiquitous pictures of Peace Corps surveyors, Peace Corps masons, Peace Corps mechanics--all implying that Peace Corps volunteers need specialized training. Actually, eighty-five percent of the volunteers now active have only bachelors degrees from liberal arts colleges. Very few have special skills. The Corps' officials stress that special training and abilities are much less important than other qualifications. They believe that a volunteer can be taught almost any skills his job may require during the twelve-week training period...
...Corps training is supposed to give volunteers confidence in themselves and in their ability to meet unexpected situations, as well as to teach them languages and specific skills. The same parts of the program that impart this confidence enable psychologists to see how well the trainees stand up under stress...