Word: topically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Patients are very much like children sometimes. They sense things without understanding them. They are sometimes frightened of what they sense, so it is occasionally appropriate for the case-aide to be aware of what he is feeling so he can explain something about the topic or problem in a way that the patient can understand...
Exploration of the moon also provided a good topic for discussion ultimately connected with integration. One Negro boy said, "Aliens probably look like us, but maybe they're a bit bigger, with an extra finger ... maybe just a glob...
...economist and polished diplomat, a veteran lecturer and fledgling novelist, a former presidential adviser and current cynosure of the Eastern intellectual set, John Kenneth Galbraith has long been a purveyor of predictions. For two decades they have come tumbling from his typewriter and tongue in prodigious quantities, covering every topic from women to world politics. Yet there are few predictions that Galbraith cherishes more?or wishes more that he had never felt com pelled to make?than his warning that a major U.S. involvement in Viet Nam would lead to disaster...
...tackling his topic, today's linguistics scholar often must command one or more of such diverse fields of expertise as psychology, biology, mathematics, even electrical engineering or analytic philosophy. As it develops, the discipline has spawned such hybrids or specialties as computational linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, even biological linguistics. All of which has led to a far higher standing in academe than universities traditionally accorded their linguists, who until recently were normally employed as mere appendages to anthropology or foreign-language departments...
...road. In particular, the Model Cities program may help relocate families displaced by the Belt, provide loans to area businessmen, and furnish other compensations. The problems of building and financing "air rights construction"--houses and business built on a platform above the depressed highway--will also be a likely topic. After that, it's anybody's guess...