Word: controller
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...among many middle-and upper-class Americans that the estrangement of the young is strongest, but the influence of children on parents is also most evident. Parents who lose control of their children are usually confused about their own values and identities. Lacking authority, such parents cannot provide the key ingredient of growing up: a loving force to rebel against. Psychoanalyst Helene Deutsch believes that many parents themselves are still emotional adolescents, and it is evident not only in their adoption of youthful dress and fads but in a lack of inner maturity as well: "In giving their children freedom...
Anthropologist Margaret Mead goes further. In her view, the advent of the atomic bomb in 1945 split humanity into rival camps: the old are "immigrants" in a world they control but do not understand; the young are natives but still lack power. United by instant communications that dramatize crises everywhere, the new youth international views its elders as irresponsible?insensitive to global dangers like nuclear holocaust. In this situation, Miss Mead argues that much of the world is on the verge of a "prefigurative" culture in which "the young, free to act on their own initiative, can lead the elders...
Harte and his activist wife Janet, a New Englander who serves on the Texas Civil Rights Commission, have gone on to espouse locally unpopular causes like pollution control for oil companies. "That paper is the Pravda of South Texas," snorts one conservative lawyer. Harte has even recovered from his initial dismay at discovering that Chris played a major role in persuading Stanford to create a coed dormitory. "The kids were more orderly and serious about their studies, so I've changed my mind." Even so, Harte is still cool about some of Chris's other passions, such as the film...
...documentaries that named names, showed proof and dumped skeletons out of some of the best closets in Duval County. A local political candidate with a strong conservation program turned out to be board chairman of one of the county's worst polluters. A member of the water quality control board also served on the board of a paper company with a dreadful record for water pollution. A company cited for befouling both water and air boasted an executive on the air quality control board. One of the area's major employers proved to be an ocean polluter...
...Lack of Control. One of the dangers that blood donors face is serum hepatitis, a sometimes fatal liver disease transmitted by unsterile laboratory equipment. But the council is even more disturbed by the lack of adequate control over the majority of plasmapheresis programs now under way in the country. Coordination among programs is lacking, record keeping practically nonexistent...