Word: absents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orgasmic capacity--an intriguing correspondence which warrants much further research. The greater a woman's difficulty in reaching orgasm, the more consistently likely she was to be concerned about the "lack of dependability of love objects." The more likely she was, in particular, to have experienced in childhood an absent, undependable or distant father. Fisher could offer no real evidence as to what extent these attitudes were ineradicably formulated in early childhood, and to what extent they could be influenced by a woman's relationship with her sex partner...
...minded reformers either into disarray or scurrying for the center. By the end of his term, he had elicited a measure of respect from all segments of a Faculty that had deeply distrusted his predecessor, Franklin L. Ford. He restored a certain reverence for his office that had been absent for some time. Even his opponents on the Faculty capitulated out of respect for his skillfull blending of energy, manipulation and unorthodoxy...
...part, though, the interviews with both Protestant and Catholic leaders tend to the obvious; the hate, the bigotry and the small-mindedness are all there but that is unfortunately all that is shown. Nowhere is there a hint of why these people feel the way they do given. Notoriously absent in the film is any sort of indepth discussion with actual Provisional IRA members, particularly those on the lower rungs of the power...
...Theme of the Traitor and the Hero," it is a film of limited ambitions shot with remarkable sensitivity and control. Its limit is a lack which might not be noticed except in comparison with the political and psychological ponderings of Bertolucci's other films, a moral core which is absent because of the source chosen. Borges's stories are self-admitted "plots for stories that could be written," devoid of flesh and particulars. They work at the level of things that could happen--paradoxes and self-questionings. If they cease to be general, they lose their point...
...instance, investigate truce violations on its own, without waiting for a complaint from either side. The key factor, of course, is whether the four parties are willing to cooperate. So far the Poles and the Canadians agree that the new commission is graced with a cooperative spirit absent from...