Word: presentable
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...some respects I find the present generation of university students more appealing. They are more open-minded and individualistic as well as less prone to social, religious, and racial prejudice. When I was a college student in the 1940s, there prevailed in this country quite rigid codes of social behavior and personality models one was expected to emulate, both of which, coming from Europe, I found ridiculous and annoying. During the past 30 years, in part due to strong influences emanating from continental Europe, American youth has emancipated itself from these conventions...
...compared to the students of the 1940s and 1950s, the present generation of students seems less happy. Undergraduates then laughed much more readily; they seemed less anxious and suspicious of their elders. It first struck me in the mid-1960s how difficult it has become to elicit laughter from a classroom. This is no longer quite true today, but the spontaneous gaiety seems gone...
...possible, of course, that the young anticipate the coming turbulence, that the future already casts its shadow on the present. Perhaps, like some forms of wildlife, they have the capacity instinctively to anticipate an unusually severe winter, and make for it all sorts of preparations...
...will see in the 80s that there is no solution within the present institutional order. I predict wage and price controls on a permanent basis in the 80s. The conservatives who argue you can't have price controls without dislocations are right. We'll have controls, and that's where planning comes in. Planning without controls. Because of problems generated by capitalism, these controls will necessitate more controls and more planning...
...appellation that means "sign of God." There is no formal procedure for bestowing it; a religious leader is called ayatullah by a large number of reverent followers and is accepted as such by the rest of the Iranian clergy. At present, Iran has perhaps 50 to 60 mullahs generally regarded as ayatullahs. * After Indonesia (123.2 million), India (80 million), Pakistan (72.3 million) and Bangladesh (70.8 million...