Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Morale v. Achievement. "Learning by doing"-a sound slogan at first-often came to mean concentrating on any activity provided it was not intellectual. Self-discipline sometimes meant no discipline at all, the emphasis on individual differences did away with objective standards, the stress on cooperation frequently turned out to be conformity to one's "peer group," and the idea that the school must educate the "whole child" led the school to take on all sorts of responsibilities that properly belong to the family. Perhaps the most debilitating doctrine of all is the notion that the child must...
...good standing with labor, would ring the alarm bells in the ranks of organized labor, which is historically opposed to the use of Federal Court injunctions in strike situations; Arkansas' John McClellan, noted by television and general repute across the whole country for his stern morality, would stress the immorality of Part III. Russell's fellow Georgian, Herman Talmadge, proposed that the Southerners take every opportunity to get onto TV-radio forums like Face the Nation and Meet the Press; Russell quickly endorsed the idea...
...survey of standard amatory numbers (Speaking of Love, So Near and Yet So Far) by one of the most offbeat café singer-pianists now operating. The style ranges from a belting, parade-beat Hooray for Love to a lilting Let's Fall in Love with a light stress on the leer in the lyric...
...boast: "Anybody can see that most of our money goes on salaries." Each cramped interviewing room contains only a desk and two chairs. The invariable procedure: invite the client to discuss anything at will. This is somewhat like Freudian free association, but with differences on which Rogers lays great stress: no attempt to dredge for harrowing emotional experiences in childhood or to seek cause-and-effect relationships between past experiences and present difficulties...
While a person working just for a grade gets quite a lot out of a course, I wish we didn't have to lay so much stress on grades, particularly in areas like scholarships. We have sixteen and one half courses for everybody, and the same system all the way through...