The nature of silence is discussed as an imposition of mind, as an interdependent signification ground for speech signs, as a relationship to mental time (as opposed to artificial time), and as it relates to sensation, perception and metaphorical movement. (Author)

Faced with the task of planning social activities (aesthetic education) for a large community, including distinctive sub-cultures, planners must have a philosophical foundation upon which to base all decisions involving value judgments. The viewpoint expressed is a working philosophy, a guideline for such action. (BL)

Special issue devoted to the topic of standard spoken usage. (VM)

Lists and discusses internationally applicable factors which are likely to hinder or obstruct learning from the time the disadvantaged child enters the classroom. (DM)

A 1967 survey of 112 Latin American medical school indicates that instruction in fertility regulation was offered in 47 of the 76 responding schools, that 13 more expressed the intention of initiating such teaching, but that clinical facilities were limited. These responses are compared with those from a previous survey of North American medical…

This essay's thesis is that far from technology being the principal dynamic factor in social change, culture, or what is played out in the artistic imagination, is supreme. Art has made the idea of change accepted and expected, and society now accepts this role for the imagination. (JB)

In response to Daniel Bell (AA 511 929), the author considers American culture - life style and social class, the institutional frame-work, the economic and industrial organization and influences, and the cultural role of universities - and concludes that America is not a divided but a richly pluralistic society. (JB)

The worldwide youth culture is becoming increasingly autonomous against the dominant adult" society, and within this autonomy youth culture is beginning to develop a structure and rationale of its own. Youthcult and youthmyth is a new species of cult behavior. (Author/JB)

This extensive article covers three aspects of the premarital dyad: courtship development, dating behavior and satisfactions, and mate selection. It appears that the interplay of needs and roles seems to be a major part of discussion relevant to mate selection. (Author/CJ)

Studies of family interaction in Zinacantan, Mexico and Cambridge, Massachusetts, are used to test four hypotheses: (1) affection elicits affection; (2) dominance elicits submission; (3) all group members will exhibit the same degree of affection, and (4) all group members will exhibit the same degree of dominance submission. (Author)

Examines the fallacies of black male castration and impotence. (DM)