Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Schorr's claim of the lack of rehabilitation of convicts is a legitimate one, and certainly the nation's crime rate could be appreciably reduced with proper rehabilitative training of men and women felons. Yet to suggest that this is reason enough for Gilmore's behavior, evinced before the need for rehabilitation was even apparent, is spurious. To further indict society, thereby acquitting Gilmore, is to commit a travesty of justice...
There were suggestions for fireside chats, for town meetings with Carter presiding, for TV talk shows where people could phone in questions for the President. One writer suggested White House "jeans and beans" suppers for ordinary citizens-everybody eat beans, everybody wear jeans. Some wanted Carter to drive his own car in city traffic jams and to do his own shopping at the supermarket-just to keep a feel for prices. Warned Karl Olson of Rockville, Md.: "Don't go to the real exclusive places for lunch like Sans Souci, Trader Vic's or places like that...
...general, the writers seek to preserve Freud's notions of penis envy and the castration complex, but argue that the effects are hardly as malign as Freud thought. Analysts William Grossman and Walter Stewart suggest that penis envy in adult women should be interpreted as the "manifest content" of a problem-in other words, it is merely a metaphor for whatever may be troubling a woman, and not a "bedrock" problem...
With the future of the federal affirmative action program somewhat in doubt--it is facing heavy scrutiny both at the judicial level and within the administering Department of Health, Education and Welfare--the statistics suggest that perhaps the Harvard community should evaluate its advances, acknowledge the numerous short-comings and determine to make less ambiguous progress in the next three years...
...indirect answers suggest not. When taking up these works, he treats O'Hara and Quinlan like any other "types." "In Touch of Evil, I was all on the side of Charlton Heston," he says. (Heston plays the Mexican sleuth who gets the goods on Quinlan). Besides, he adds, "I'm someone who likes to look...