Word: truths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Foreign policy pragmatism and oil economics fail to wash over the inescapable truth: to peddle arms in the volatile Middle East subverts our peace efforts there and is both morally wrong and hypocritical...
...works develop into classics in that field within his own lifetime. A native of Germany, he initiated study into the human life cycle and the manner in which whole societies respond to differing phases of personal development; his psychoanalytical research led him to author Gandhi's Truth, a psychological biography of the Indian leader, that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969. His Childhood and Society has also become a classic text. Erikson taught at the Medical School before joining the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as professor of Human Development--a post from which he retired eight years...
...Regardless of the truth that female freshmen are more mature than the male, it seems ridiculous to say you should house the freshmen in one place and the freshwomen somewhere else," says Kevin M. Kennedy '80. "It doesn't seem to me to be a very good idea to have the freshmen separate from the upperclassmen. I lived at Currier, and it was much easier for me to have contact with the upperclassmen than for the present freshmen. All I had to do was walk around the dining hall to meet them...
...least one passage, Chavkin even distorts the truth in his quest for muck to rake, twisting the much-misrepresented ideas of sociobiologist E.O. Wilson, to give himself a target for an assault on determinism. Chavkin writes, "Wilson's contention is that it is the genes and not cultural evolution or socioeconomics or political environment that are responsible for human behavior." In fact, Wilson simply says that genes play a large, but not solo, role in shaping human behavior; he would hardly be happy with Chavkin's characterization of his ideas...
...this day and age, logical methods are applicable only to solving problems of secondary interest.... orbidden is any kind of search for truth which is not in conformance with accepted practices...