Word: treating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHAT WAS IT ABOUT JAMES DEAN that enabled him to attract the cult-like, fanatical worship of thousands of teenage American girls from Hollywood to the drought-ridden town of McCarthy, Texas? What was it about these teenagers in the 1950s that made them treat Dean like a second messiah before and after his tragic death on September 30, 1955? And what was it about our society that prevented some of these teenagers from developing into mature, emotionally secure adults...
...complementary process. The complementary nature of their activities, however, simply throws into relief the basic difference between universities and industries the academic imperative to seek knowledge objectively and in share it openly and freely; and the industrial imperative to garner a profit, which frequently creates the incentive to treat knowledge as private property...
...less important than this kind of drill, which some critics compare with the old-fashioned flash cards, is the use of computers to teach children about computers. They like to learn programming, and they are good at it, often better than their teachers, even in the early grades. They treat it as play, a secret skill, unknown among many of their parents. They delight in cracking corporate security and filching financial secrets, inventing new games and playing them on military networks, inserting obscene jokes into other people's programs. In soberer versions that sort of skill will become a necessity...
...marks not only the end of the series' wartime hostilities, played out on a sound stage on the Century City lot, but the end of the eleven-year-old, 250-episode CBS television show. Sometimes preachy and self-righteous, but always funny, the program was that rare TV treat, a situation comedy with situations and comedy. At a M*A*S*H bash to say goodbye, the show's creators and stars were feted with a black-tie dinner in West Hollywood by CBS and the series' producer, 20th Century-Fox. Among M*A*S*H alumni...
Then the Dillingers went to work to convert tribesmen who relied on charms and fetishes to fight the evil spirits. Lorraine, a nurse, used penicillin to cure yaws and iodine to treat goiters. The medical treatment and the Dillingers' radio seemed miracles to members of the Stone Age tribe: they thought the disembodied voices belonged to their ancestors...