Word: attainability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feeling rejected by him-makes her son a substitute for her husband, with a close-binding, overprotective relationship. Thus, she unconsciously demasculinizes him. If at the same time the father is weakly submissive to his wife or aloof and unconsciously competitive with his son, he reinforces the process. To attain normal sexual development, according to current psychoanalytic theory, a boy should be able to identify with his father's masculine role...
...necessary conditions for ending a war. There is no sign that these conditions have been reached in Viet Nam. The U.S. is certainly not yielding the point it is contending for-the independence of South Viet Nam-and has certainly not concluded that this goal is impossible to attain. Conversely, the enemy does not appear ready to yield his point either-that the U.S. must be driven out of Viet Nam-and, as far as anyone can tell so far, has not been persuaded that this goal is unattainable...
...must leave the Houses because they get married. Yearly they go through the inconvenience of finding another apartment and yearly the Masters go out and look for replacements. The necessity to leave involves more than inconvenience. The tutor who leaves after a year or so has only begun to attain the familiarity with the House's students and their problems that was to make his living there worthwhile. The fact that he has had to leave certainly discourages the good men who, although planning to marry, would like to become tutors...
Jane Bullock, as Laura, is responsible for much of the success the play managers to attain. In the first scene, she is eating dinner, picking at her food with the nervous movements of a deer. From that moment, her tremulous voice and brittle gestures create the image of a glass girl who is just as fragile as her tiny companions...
...forget the price of appeasing totalitarian regimes. I congratulate you on your thoughtful Essay, in which you distinguish between those who sincerely seek the right to dissent from Government policies and those lawless zealots who, by their "monopoly on humanitarianism," arbitrarily define God-given morality and seek to attain their ends by Machiavellian civil disobedience...