Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Farah spokesman, Alvin Herman, said yesterday that Maloney's "drastic penalties are so extreme that even lawyers for the ACWA did not dare suggest them...
...take a look at one of the causes. Since we ask the child to adapt to the system in public education, it seems only proper that we give him a fair chance. Dr. Bakalis thinks that going back to the basics will solve the problem. I would like to suggest making kindergarten mandatory, and testing to determine if a child is ready for kindergarten. Nothing succeeds like success, and "readiness...
From this mood, suggest several of the authors, there arose a crisis mentality that gave everything a life or death urgency. There was scant tolerance for moderate success or partial failure. Charles V. Hamilton, professor of government at Columbia University, argues that the crises of the '60s invariably passed through the same phases. First there was mild protest from a part of the public, then a mild response from the Government. This was followed by escalated protest, then a panic response. Once the panic had passed, there was a revulsion against whatever concessions had been made or promised...
...that the annual wage settlement sought by the miners totaled only $200 million. On the international money markets, the pound fell to $2.16, its lowest value ever against the American dollar. Nearly a million Britons had lined up for the dole. Said Lord Stokes, chairman of British Leyland: "I suggest with respect that Heath doesn't quite understand. The whole thing will collapse like a house of cards. He'll have a bankrupt nation on his hands...
...also framed. The doctors and the shrinks who prove powerless before the problem of possession, are trustees of an irrelevant authority. "What bullshit!" the mother explodes at their diagnosis. So they suggest exorcism. But what doctor, what authority of objective science, however frustrated, would turn to sorcery? How thin, after all, can you stretch convenience and still have people believe that a Harvard-Johns Hopkins-trained psychiatrist-turned-priest just happens to have done research on witchcraft? Since when has superstition invaded the sciences? Since The Exorcist, where superstition is the sense of the world. This is the alchemist...