Word: altering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WOULD hope the Jensenites could alter their stance and approach and try to bring some good out of this situation after all. They might work their way out of ethnic learning styles by broadening their research to include all ethnic groups. We have some rather learned men in our area who believe that English-Americans are atop the pyramid of abstract learning abilities with Welsh, German, French, Belgian, Norwegian, Swiss, Finnish, Danish and Swedish occupying the next nine rungs in the order listed. After the top ten have been given their just due, these gentlemen give a smattering of attention...
Today the bad penny returns. Dr. Bach's implication that provoking couples to fight before a group-therapy referee will alter the basic repository of man's hostility sounds equally naive. As a psychoanalyst in practice, I cannot believe...
...militant black, however, seriously questions the validity of law itself. He has no faith in due process and seeks not to alter a specific statute. Rather, he denies the very authority and claim to validity of present democratic legal processes. He feels that his rights will be protected only if there is a fundamental change in the societal legal order. He has passed the stage of legal protest into the sphere of revolt. The Jew, his former ally, can not and will not make such a transition and is therefore abused as a faithless lover. The militant black...
...chief literary agent in such matters is the fictional character Pierre Costals, an aristocratic writer, libertine and dedicated bachelor whom critics, rather unkindly, assume to be Montherlant's alter ego. "Literary men," Costals caustically observes, "attract crazy women the way a lump of rotten meat collects flies." And Costals is, indeed, a man much beset by marriage-minded females, most of whom begin by writing unsolicited letters to him. One, a peasant girl named Thérèse Pantevin, informs Costals that because of his novels she envisions him as her spiritual savior; when he advises...
...believe, improve to some degree the quality of black student life. Indeed, little that the students have called for, or that we have recommended, can have any other effect than the improvement of the quality of student life generally at Harvard. We have asked for changes that will surely alter the quality of life at this institution, but like the students, we have aimed at a life that is not different merely, but better and richer...