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...even the most experienced clinician finds such differentiation difficult. And in our experience, the greater his experience, the more reluctant he is to label, characterize, and "diagnose" adolescent behavior. Untold harm is done by adults who attach to some transient aspect of the adolescent's behavior a self-confirming label like "delinquent," "schizophrenic," "homosexual," or "psychopathic." The vulnerable adolescent, already confused as to who he is, may seize upon even such negative labels in a despairing effort to be someone. Many of the disturbances of adolescence that endure into adulthood are the products of a similar interaction of the adolescent...
Tutorial has worked out slightly better. Here, at least, there is opportunity to meet on a relatively individual basis with one's instructor. When difficulties arise, they usually come either from the tutor's transient interest in education (most are graduate students working to continue their own studies) or from the fact that students are so accustomed to sitting passively in large lecture halls that they simply do not know how to behave in a one-to-one classroom situation...
...class difference. Harvard is mainly a middle class school. They come here and get their training and be what their parents were. It isn't a community in itself. It does have a variety of individuals, but for most of them it's merely a stopping place, a transient community. So for most people Harvard can provide a very comfortable time if they enjoy meeting other people of different types. It is a sort of entertainment, like going slumming or someth ing.tIi (bffi,t IRV.push or something. It is just a cultural activity, part of the necessary paraphernalia...
Random and abusive use of police authority threaten the city's well-being and its citizens' respect for law far more seriously than the minor irritations occasioned by transient hippies...
...hope, blooming with all the gladness of his folk anthem, This Land Is Your Land. The gaunt Depression minstrel, with dried-grass hair and a reedy voice, spun off the Oklahoma plains like a cloud of the "dusty old dust" in his ballads to roam the nation singing in transient camps and saloons. His best stanzas staked the folk boom of the '60s, but by then their author was a wasted invalid, "drifting along" his last road in a hospital...