Word: vein
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freedom by manipulating patients like so many laboratory animals. San Francisco's Allen Wheelis, who is both psychoanalyst and thoughtful novelist, believes that a human being who submits to behavior manipulation "is treating himself as object and to some extent, therefore, becomes an object." In a similar vein, Los Angeles Analyst Judd Marmor recently wrote that the new method comes "uncomfortably close to the dangerous area of thought and behavior control." Not so, says Behaviorist Alan Goldstein of Temple University. "People come to us to have their behavior changed. It is not our choice. We don't tell...
...bill to penalize the owners of errant cats. "It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming," Stevenson explained. "The State of Illinois end its local governing bodies already have enough to do without trying to control feline delinquency." In a similar vein, Patrick Leahy, state's attorney in Chittenden County, Vt., has responded to police who requested official guidance in coping with an increase of nude swimming. Highlights of Leahy's opinion...
...different vein, an adult quadriplegic writes about "Solving Hopeless Problems" (he types by striking the keys with a stick held in his mouth), and explains his philosophy: "One adjusts to realities. I try to forge ahead, aware that life may never be full but determined never to accept less than I must." With a similar emphasis on facing facts, an article titled "How Different Is My Child?" counsels against overprotection-which can deprive a youngster of the experiences he needs to become emotionally independent-and against overexpectation, which can make a child feel that "he cannot do anything...
Until the three major networks cease their chorus-line kick approach to the news, a rich vein of public skepticism will be available for Agnew to exploit...
...strategy. These factual observations in the article were not and could not have been prescriptive; they were simple, straight-forward descriptions of what had happened and was happening in South Vietnam as I observed it; my prescriptive "policy recommendations" were entirely different. In a similar factual vein, my article also described the extent to which no significant changes had taken place or were taking place in the relative distribution of political control in the countryside among the Viet Cong, the government, and the communal groups...