Word: tend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perspective of the urban educator, he said, is often limited by "the myth of the unitary community"--the belief that the city is an organic whole, without important interest group cleavages. Thus, they tend to overlook special needs and impose a single curriculum on the whole city...
...frequent problem is whether a patient "should be told." There is much medical opposition to telling him-mostly for good and sufficient reasons. But there may be other reasons not so good. Some psychiatrists have noticed that doctors tend to have a high degree of thanatophobia (fear of death). To them death is the enemy and its victory a personal defeat from which they naturally turn away. In addition, indications are that many doctors had above-average anxiety about death in their childhood, and Dr. Herman Feifel, psychologist at the Los Angeles Veterans Clinic, speculates that this is why they...
...largely been discarded, and I see examples all the time of neuroses caused by the fear of death." Harvard Theologian Krister Stendahl agrees. "Socrates," he points out, "died in good cheer and in control, unlike the agony of Jesus with his deep human cry of desertion and loneliness. Americans tend to behave as Socrates did. But there is more of what Jesus stands for lurking in our unconsciousness...
...Viet Nam. All three faiths openly denounce U.S. military action in Viet Nam-and at the same time work at projects that tend to make the U.S. look good there. The Brethren have had voluntary workers in Viet Nam since 1955, most of them effectively involved in community development, education and now refugee resettlement. The National Council of Churches' Division of Overseas Ministries channels its relief support to Viet Nam through the Mennonite Central Committee. Recently an inspection team from the American Friends Service Committee toured Viet Nam, is now formulating proposals as to how the Quakers can give...
...considered the Talmud blasphemous, and copies of it were publicly burned by church authorities as late as 1599. Even Jews have revolted against the burden of its teaching. The 8th century Karaites rejected the authority of the Talmud for the simplicity of the Bible message alone. Today Reform Jews tend to regard it as a record of past wisdom rather than as an essential of their faith...