Word: accomplishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discourage the reading of any records until after they've known the patient for at least six months. When finally they see the records, inevitably they say the record doesn't help one bit. Actually, the record is very useful to a professional, but for accomplishing what you're trying to accomplish as a case-aide, the record may be useful for finding out that the patient doesn't really have a sister, or didn't really kill his child, or has in fact held good jobs, but what is the good of knowing about the truth of a sibling...
Work of Mourning. Lifton recalls that he once gave a lecture on Hiroshima to a group of psychiatrists; some of them later told him that they resented subsequent speakers who dealt with ordinary concerns. He notes that a similar reaction occurred after President Kennedy's assassination. To accomplish what Freud called "the work of mourning"-the process of coming to terms with loss-Americans remained glued to their TV sets, absorbing every detail of the killing and the funeral. When the stations returned to routine programming, many viewers felt annoyed and let down. The work of mourning had "opened...
...third aspect of the program which I set out to accomplish in 1959 led to my fight for the sales tax, not because I wanted to make enemies with the tax, but because it was the only tax which could be enacted to bring about some state assistance with some of the great burden, since no one would then put in an income tax. It was passed...
...grandfathers "remembered the Maine" and ended an oppressive, archaic colonial empire. Apparently we're going to "negotiate about the Pueblo" and accomplish nothing, except little inconveniences like prison camps and death for 83 Americans who were serving for the rest...
Brazen Incursion. As that prospect dimmed in the face of Southern success and stagnation in the North, Kim switched from talking about "peaceful" reunification and declared: "We must accomplish the South Korean revolution and unify the fatherland in our generation." To that end, he set up subversion and terrorist schools in North Korea, where some 2,400 commandos are now being trained to infiltrate the South to start a guerrilla war. The results have become apparent in the North's new aggressiveness along the Demilitarized Zone at the 38th parallel. In 1967, there were 566 North Korean infiltration incidents...