Word: stressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peabody, who was runner-up in the 1960 gubernatorial race, will stress the issues of corruption in state government and heavy taxation. He also favors building a freeway instead of a toll road extension into Boston...
...Steve's and similar cases, says Dr. Woods, the emotional trouble was inability to find a socially acceptable safety valve for aggressive impulses stemming from disturbed sexuality. The brain abnormality, he suggests, may constitute a biological stress that enhances the aggression. He is confident that the brain abnormality does not induce the aggressiveness, or vice versa. Either can exist without the other. Fortunately-since no effective treatment is known-the 6 and 14 syndrome seems to fade out at the end of adolescence...
...Peace Corps has increased its surveillance of college-run training programs, officials said. It has put greater stress on language instruction and volunteer indoctrination...
Phenix's ideal school would shun all social stratification, from numbered grades to skin color. It would emphasize learning as "preparation for the good life," not "the cash value of more education." It would stress the rule of law in national and world affairs, and forcefully analyze "the extreme destructiveness of modern weapons of war." From the consequences of protective tariffs to the advantages of foreign languages, it would always presuppose "universality and world outlook...
...worse charge, to my mind, is that Tocsin puts "an inordinate stress on survival as a goal of American foreign policy." It is true that our strongest objection to the strategy of nuclear deterrence is our belief that it does not really secure safety from destruction. But this is not our only objection. Most Tocsin members feel that the strategy and structure of the cold war--with its myth of an implacable and apocalyptic total conflict between the Communist system and our own--is contributing to a growing erosion of the civil freedoms and social ideals which in the past...