Word: orthodox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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REACTION to his ideas, says Milton Friedman, follows "a certain scenario." Act I: "The views of crackpots like myself are avoided." Act II: "The defenders of the orthodox faith become uncomfortable because the ideas seem to have an element of truth." Act III: "People say, 'We all know that this is an impractical and theoretically extreme view?but of course we have to look at more moderate ways to move in this direction.' " Act IV: Opponents "convert my ideas into untenable caricatures so that they can move over and occupy the ground where I formerly stood...
...example, one author quotes this section of an Orthodox Jewish prayer: "Blessed art thou, Oh Lord, that I was not born a slave. Blessed art thou, Oh Lord, that I was not born a woman." Another author describes a story in a recently published children's textbook...
...abstruse books and myriad articles had yet been translated from their original French and, says one child psychologist, "we ignored him because we were so busy with Freud." Piaget's current acceptance is a clear sign of how the preoccupation with orthodox Freudian concerns is broadening to other areas (TIME, March 7). A flood of Piaget translations and explications has appeared.* Piaget-oriented researchers are expanding and following up his leads, and his insights are in growing vogue among U.S. educators, psychologists and some parents. The most enthusiastic compare his work in significance to Freud's pioneering exploration...
Next door, a middle-aged man in dark striped pains, suspenders, a white shirt, and a powder-blue yarmulke, answered and told us he was an orthodox rabbi, and would not talk politics on the Sabbath...
Everywhere, we seemed to get similar responses. Half the tenants of the orthodox Jewish community were afraid to open their doors for fear of death, while groups of young Spanish speaking children went running up and down the stairs, playing happily, totally unaware of frightened faces behind closed doors...