Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obese and whose mother or sister had the disease. This does not mean that someone who fits most or even all of these categories is certain to develop breast cancer. Nor does it mean that the disease is hereditary; no evidence whatever has been found to suggest that genes for breast tumors are passed from generation to generation...
Reordered Priorities. The woman who undergoes surgery for breast cancer has little trouble finding someone willing to help her overcome its aftermath. Reach to Recovery, an organization composed of mastectomees (TIME, Oct. 14), sends volunteers around to hospitals to visit postoperative patients. They suggest exercises that will help women regain their strength and offer advice on where to obtain breast prostheses and clothing tailored to their particular needs. Memorial Hospital runs its own encounter-style rehabilitation program to assist the physical and psychological recovery of patients...
However, Young said freshmen had already begun to take the initiative themselves. "I don't want to push it," he said. "I would rather suggest and let people think within a big framework, defining their terms...
...Koch thinks that a teacher can overcome a child's fear of writing a bad poem or being criticized or ridiculed by reading poems aloud stressing their intrinsic value, and withholding the writer's name. Never change a line, says Koch, just ask the writer what he meant. He suggest going around the classroom "encouraging good lines and discouraging wayward ideas." In his second book on teaching children great poetry called Rose, where Did You Get That Red, he has this to say for the class atmosphere...
...suggest that Chavez has not fooled Harvard, but rather, the various government agencies relied upon by Mr. Ferrara have fooled him. Does anyone remember the veracity of government figures concerning the Viet Nam conflict, or America's involvement in the latest elections in Chile? Al Cornett...