Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...argue that Harvard should prohibit enrollment in ROTC on moral grounds leads to the conclusion that it should extend moral judgements to other student activities. If the United States Army is evil then the federal government that controls it is likewise evil. But no one would suggest that Harvard should prevent students from taking summer internships in the federal government. If Harvard is obliged to resist "complicity" in the evil allegedly perpetrated by the American military, shouldn't it also proscribe students from government employment, campaign work for pro-military political candidates, and any number of other supposedly immoral activities...
...women I know wouldn't draw up a list like the one that appeared in Good Housekeeping, they still have trouble (as I do) shrugging off some of the attitudes that make such women respect-worthy. And, as the shelves stocked with volumes titled "Women and ..." suggest, sex really does get in the way of dealing straightforwardly with people, even when the important criteria should be intelligence, job competence, ambition or simple sympathy...
...women questions the conventional modes of male/ female interaction and the traditional place of the female sex in society. Although it would be spurious to try and propose some kind of plan of action by which women could complete more equitably on all levels with men, these writers suggest ways for them to change their habits of being in order to assert themselves more effectively, to do more...
...lives. Antonio Misetich, an MIT-affiliated Argentine scientist, was arrested on April 19 (Globe 5/5/76) by army security forces. Others who have been arrested include Osvaldo Sunkeld and Marta Zabaleta, both economists, and Harolda Conti, a writer. Pedro Paz, an economist, has also disappeared. (But recent reports from Argentina suggest that Paz and Sunkeld have been allowed to go into exile as a result of U.N. pressure...
Callaghan can probably count on strong popular support for the new policy. Recent polls suggest that as much as 70% of the country backs tax relief in return for stringent pay restraint. Even the Tories approved; Sir Geoffrey Howe, the Conservatives' shadow Chancellor, admitted that the plan reflected "a greater sense of realism...