Word: absents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Absent, too, would be the need for that tragic knowledge which we try ceaselessly to evade: that the true subject of democracy is not simply material well-being but the extension of the democratic process in the direction of perfecting itself. And that the most obvious test and clue to that perfection is the inclusion-not assimilation-of the black...
...from "all levels of psychosexual development." He points to the anxious adult's tendency to touch his nose or mouth or chin, acts rooted in the infant's use of its own hand as a source of physical comfort when its mother -its source of sustenance-is absent. The actor fears a hostile or unappreciative audience, but knows he must perform, that his hands and body are strictly choreographed; he is defenseless at the height of his anxiety. (As opposed to the paranoiac, who can try to flee his imagined dangers, or to the impostor, who can regulate...
...Regan, too, has been trying to develop in this spring's team the discipline which has been so absent in recent years. Recently, while the Crimson was doing its daily 100 jumping jacks someone got out of step on number 75, and Regan had everyone start all over again. "He's a great drilling instructor." back-up goalie Brian Landry said...
...eviction at University Hall last April was the classic example of unregimented riot control. The Cambridge police that were involved in the raid, unlike the State Troopers present, had not been adequately trained in crowd control, and that most important of qualities when dealing with crowds, restraint, was absent in their conduct. This, however, was not entirely their fault. Because they were not well-trained, the Cambridge policemen were not psychologically prepared to deal with the students that confronted them at University Hall. They did not remain in a unit- one of the basic tenets of riot control- and when...
Crane has always been absent when the City Council voted on election question. "He won't even vote for himself," Moot said...