Word: affectivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pain symposium last month at the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, Calif. Each investigator, he said, is "locked in" to thinking of pain in his own terms. Thus the psychologist views it as a basic, elementary sensation like sight or hearing. To the psychiatrist, it is an affect or emotion, like depression or anxiety; to the analyst, the product of an internal psychic conflict; to the neurologist or neurosurgeon, a pattern of neurophysiological activity. The biologist emphasizes its survival value. The existential philosopher, Frederik J. J. Buytendijk, regards pain as a potentially character-building phenomenon that unites...
Revolution, because it requires that concerted action of large numbers of people concentrated in ways that affect other people, is necessarily an institution, one which can be as stifling as a corporation...
...revealed the insufficiencies of this structure has been the arrival of a remarkable student generation many of whose members share with their peers elsewhere an enormous dissatisfaction with the world in which they now find themselves. These dissatisfactions express themselves quite differently among different students and by no means affect the entire student community. The expressions of discontent run the gamut from a cultural "hippie" rebellion to extreme political radicalism. Politically concerned students brought up to trust their leaders and to expect good will and progress from them, have in the recent years undergone an experience which has been tantamount...
...America. He set out to be a traveling portrait painter himself. Yet as he rested by the side of the road between jobs, he found himself powerfully drawn to the wilderness surrounding him. "These scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature has never been lifted," he noted, "affect the mind with more deep-toned emotion than aught which the hand of man has touched. Amid them, the consequent associations are of God, the Creator; they are his undefiled works." Cole decided to become a landscape painter instead of a portraitist...
...windswept dunes and scrub grass. To Mayor Michel de Vallavielle of nearby Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, the beach is an almost personal possession. "It remains the symbol of liberation," he says. On June 6, 1944, De Vallavielle was mistakenly shot and wounded by American paratroopers, but it did not affect his gratitude to the liberators. Over the years, he has built a small museum in a blockhouse and has seen to it that the original wooden markers naming local roads and paths after fallen American soldiers were replaced by neat cement bornés bearing the information. In the village...