Word: distinguish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does better when she is not trying to be a female Tom Wolfe. Her new biweekly New York column, "The City Politic," usually provides something extra, as when she discussed the city's unions and concluded, "Nothing's simple anymore. We'll just have to distinguish between good unions and bad, between people living in the past out of stubbornness or out of dire necessity. If the city were sprayed with plastic right now, we would preserve samples of life from the past two centuries, with the transportation system representing the oldest thing alive...
...because at my end of the political spectrum one must make it clear that standing for democratic socialism is quite another thing from standing for Communism." He gleefully told how he instructed three House Un-American Activities Committee agents in that difference. "They'd previously been unable to distinguish between socialism and rheumatism," he said. "I assured them that we didn't want to overthrow their Government, and they went away happy...
...something that happened to me quite, recently that may help clarify a lot about Richard Brautigan and this book. I was walking along this muddy path in the woods, right near my house in Maryland, when I heard this faint screeching up ahead. As I got closer, I could distinguish a man's voice. He seemed to be screaming frantically against a background of loud, chaotic piano-banging. I kept on walking, and the voice was exactly like Hitler's, even down to the 1930's crackly sound. My God, I thought, it's Hitler screaming against a piano...
...distinguish two kinds of processes by which children acquire attitudes, values, and patterns of social behavior. First, there is learning that occurs on the basis of direct tuition or instrumental training. In this form of learning, parents and other socializing agents are relatively explicit about what they wish the child to learn and attempt to shape his behavior through rewarding and punishing consequences...
...evaluating the effects of exposure to televised violence on the behavior of viewers it is important to distinguish between learning and doing. It has been shown that if people are exposed to televised aggression they not only learn aggressive patterns of behavior, but they also retain them over a long period of time. There is no longer any need to equivocate about whether televised stimulation produces learning effects. It can serve as an effective tutor...