Word: stressful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...support of the new order fused with his passionate sense of justice to shape a way of being that was simultaneously on the side of progress and in revolt against its present villains who controlled both government and the means of production. This ambivalent way of dealing with the stress of rapid social change retains its appeal for many men today...
...open palm toward those who happen to pose a verbal threat, although the gesture may be quite inconspicuous and unconscious. Women, for example, tend to make a rapid hand-to-neck movement when they are agitated, disguising it as a hair-grooming gesture. Men also exhibit similar signs of stress. Embarrassed by such a driving miscue as accidentally cutting off another motorist, they will frequently make a seemingly irrelevant sweep of their hair. Actually, the gesture represents a very real surge of inner tension or conflict. "If you find yourself doing this," Brannigan and Humphries explain, "examine your motivation honestly...
...Conn. Wealthy by birth, well placed in banking, Warburg had every reason to support the established order. Instead, he became an articulate advocate of new, often radical political maneuvers, assailing such elements of U.S. policy as the refusal to seat Communist China in the U.N., and America's stress on military rather than socioeconomic solutions to the cold...
...temple of learning, disinterested and politically or socially neutral. The reality is of course quite different, as shown by the growth of specialization, research and involvement in public affairs. This discrepancy explains why, in every confrontation, events are actually shaped by the idiosyncracies of the particular University under stress...
Ultimately, business and the professions may have to make even greater adjustments to accommodate the new breed of graduates. Many big corporations now use their annual reports to stress their good works as well as their profits. Some top-ranking Manhattan law firms cooperate in programs that allow younger associates to work one night a week in the ghettos and do follow-up work during the day; Baltimore's Piper & Marbury plans to open an office in the ghetto next fall. Idiosyncrasy is no longer suspect. In some areas the man in the turtleneck is beginning to replace...