Word: inhibitions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...choose to suppress course offerings by force. First, student representation in early stages of course selection would make it unlikely that a course so out of tune with students interest as Planning 11-3b would ever get so far as a first meeting. Second, such institutions would inhibit the tendency to see course offerings as imposed by an alien body and justifiably obstructed by force. Third, and most important, the limited resources of the University would be marshalled to serve the intellectual interest of students as well as faculty. Give the highly-touted diversity of the Harvard student body...
...deal with the conditions that create them," said Leslie F. Griffin '70, president of the AAAAS. The prospectus of the course, "Planning 113b," states that "The American ghetto problem is better known than understood, as riots and continuing unrest demonstrate . . . It is obviously desirable to minimize such effects, to inhibit this kind of violence and to mitigate its impact on our society...
From this conjecture flows a host of fascinating theories. On the ability to inhibit the sex drive, all of civilization may be based. Says Fox: "Control over sex and aggression; feelings about status and personal wellbeing; group loyalty; conscience and guilt; sensitivity to incestuous impulses; identification with and rebellion against the older generation; possessiveness over females and sexual jealousy; the desire for variety in sex life-all these are part and parcel of the evolution of the brain...
Auto manufacturers deny any wrong doing. The charges, said Chrysler, would "inevitably inhibit" the kind of joint at tacks on pollution that the Government claims it wants. Instead of demanding damages, the suit asks that the automakers be enjoined from doing in the future what they disclaim having done in the past...
...they reach that conclusion, South American officers are not bound by the strict moral prohibition against interfering in politics that would inhibit Anglo-Saxon military men. As a result of a legacy that dates back to the military's role in liberating the continent from Spain in the 1800s and to its subsequent support for social reform, the officers consider themselves the saviors and protectors of their countries' wellbeing. If the exercise of this lofty mission entails tossing a few politicians out of office, the military conscience remains untwinged...