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Word: personal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should admit the educational validity of certain types of experience not ordinarily regarded as classes." Chalmers said, "and regard familiarity with current social problems as part of a person's general education." He said Gen Ed should be an opportunity for "field work" and "aesthetic experience...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Chalmers and Winthrop Students Suggest Curriculum Reform Plan | 12/6/1969 | See Source »

...understand My Lai, some contributing causes help explain, if not condone. There is, unfortunately, a racial element. To the G.I., the Vietnamese, both North and South, "slant." is a "gook," "dink," "slope".; The terms, often used unthinkingly, tend to shift the object into a thing rather than a person ? and hence something that it is easier to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: MY LAI: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...State. Although the Nazi defendants pleaded "state orders," 19 were convicted and ten were hanged. To skeptics, Nurnberg proved mainly that losing a war had become a crime under international law. Nevertheless, the supremacy of civilized rules of behavior was enunciated in a U.N. report: "The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his government or a superior does not relieve him of responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE LEGAL DILEMMAS | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...brand of inspirational leadership. "You think of what a psychiatrist does or how a good father brings up a child," he says. "If a salesman does something terrible, we convince him that under normal circumstances he would never have done that, that he's a much finer person than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling: If Nobody Loves You, Your Company Will | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...most natural answer is that a person just can't. You simply cannot wish away the gloom and become joyous all by yourself. To do so, you would have to ignore pressures and renounce obligations-in other words, you would have to place yourself in jcopardy in a variety of ways. And few individuals feel they can afford to do that just...

Author: By Sandy Bonder, | Title: You, Too, Can Be Santa's Little Helper | 12/4/1969 | See Source »

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