Word: volunteerism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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I became progressively more incensed reading your recent article by the "volunteer patient" at Boston State Hospital fill at the end I was seething. It was a sanctimonious, closed-eyed, holier-than-thou look at a place with good and bad points, with choices, and with many people who care...
"Volunteer patients" came on my ward, and after on exposure, I fought to have them prevented from returning. This scheme is very insulting, painful, and inconsiderate of patients, (Something I discovered after discussing a visit by "volunteers.") First, they can always tell, immediately, an imposter, and feel they are part...
Pessimistic About Peace. On the No. 1 campus issue, Viet Nam, more than half rejected even the possibility that the U.S. role in the war could be moral. Almost half advocated the immediate unilateral withdrawal of American forces. As a group, the freshmen were extremely pessimistic about the chances of...
Also, Lindsay has attracted thousands of young volunteer workers who are canvassing the city, Gene McCarthy-style, on Lindsay's behalf. And despite the charges and countercharges between the Lindsay and Procaccino camps over racism?Marchi calls both his adversaries "rhetorical muggers"?the tension that was so evident a...
Nevertheless, the success of the Cuban effort is far from certain. Cuba is short of trained managers, and in some factories has relied on worker self-supervision. In many of these factories worker productivity has been falling. "Once you take the bosses off people's backs." says one Harvard economist...