Word: acceptance
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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After carefully inspecting the mouth of their gift horse, a committee of 15 students from Amherst, Hampshire, Smith, Mount Holyoke and the University of Massachusetts decided last week to accept $25,000 from John D. Rockefeller III. He had offered to pay expenses for a student-faculty study to determine what kind of social-improvement project might be carried out in the Connecticut River valley (TIME, Dec. 21). The students had refused to take the money until they could check out Rockefeller's motives-64 is, after all, quite a bit over...
...savage battles, rivalries, and psychological if not physical mayhem. Psychoanalyst R.D. Laing says that the "initial act of brutality against the average child is the mother's first kiss." He finds it hurtful that a child is completely at the mercy of his parents, even to having to accept affection. Laing's colleague, David Cooper, calls the nuclear family the "ultimately perfected form of nonmeeting" and, in a new book called The Death of the Family, demands its abolition. These are extreme views, but it may be better to face the fierce aspects of family life than to expect only...
...divorce, no matter how sobering the problems it raises, has the positive psychological effect of making it harder for couples to rationalize a bad marriage by the dogma that they are 'stuck' with each other. The possibility of finding a new lover makes it more necessary for us to accept the responsibility of choosing the one we do have if we stay with...
Hussein also asked the U.S. not to back down on its stand that Israel must "substantially" withdraw from occupied territories. "Israel must choose land or peace," the King told the National Press Club. "She cannot have both." He agreed, however, thai "if there is a need, we would conceivably accept minor rectifications on a reciprocal basis...
Gradually, the monologues−interrupted on occasion with plaintive questions from Howard as to whether I was recording the conversation, which I was not, or taking notes, which I was, frantically−shifted from daylight to dark, and from premidnight to early morning hours. One night, I vowed to accept no calls, and my wife agreed that she would handle Howard. We fell into bed exhausted and waited for the calls we knew would come. The first came...