Word: rewarded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Agnew, is to draft a coherent national urban policy, outlining the Federal Government's posture in relation to state and local authorities. One tentative conclusion: the Federal Government should flatly double aid to local governments when the Viet Nam war has ended, reforming the local funding mechanism to reward them on the basis of performance...
...grades serve as "an undesirable reward structure" which serves "to socialize students into the work force...
...some black leaders. They have tired of being mothered by the Democrats. Some look forward to new coalitions, even to Richard Nixon--or at least Farmer does. He wants the black man to become "unwedded from the machine," to use his ballot as a "swing vote" that would reward friends and punish enemies. "Black people," he says, "unless I am mistaken, don't want to be loved. They want to be respected...
Once he started an examination of what he considers "the revitalization of American poetry," Dickerson was surprised to discover how many important poets have recently put out new books. He turned out 26 reviews before reluctantly paring down his list to the twelve that appear. His personal reward, he says, was "the sharpening of one's own language that comes from studying other people's poetry...
...true value. In considerate society, the audience seldom lets the performer down-in part, as Goffman repeatedly notes, because the roles of performer and audience interlock. A man rushing for the bus dons a sheepish smile to indicate his awareness of how silly he looks. His observers reward his performance-that is, the smile-by smiling sympathetically back. With this response, they become performers, and the bus chaser becomes the audience...