Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Politics of Experience is the attempt of Ronald Laing, a Scottish psychiatrist, "to document some forms of our contemporary violation of ourselves." The widespread interest the book has generated since it reached the American market in September suggest that Laing succeeds in his endeavor, that many have found in it clues to their alienation...
Experience is then the keystone of Laing's psychotherapy, his social critique and his suggestions for the improvement of the human condition. Psychotherapy is too often an attempt to impose the psychiatrist's "sane" reality in place of the patient's insane" reality. Such value judgments only compound the patient's trouble, by seeking to reinstate, without reintegrating, the experience which the patient had fled. Many cases of schizophrenia and psychosis are attempts to recapture the internal meaning which the patient had lost. Psychotherapy, according to Laing, should encourage and assist the internal voyages of self-discovery rather than coerce...
Observers believe the objective of the enemy attacks is more political than military--an attempt to wring concessions at the Paris peace talks by a revived show of force...
INSIDE, a gaunt black St. Nicholas and an Uhuru poster, chains broken, decorate the walls of the modern office of Freedom Industries, Inc.--a new attempt in Boston to make black power mean money. Downtown Roxbury -- dirty streets sandwiched between grey buildings, and the problems of ghetto poverty--waits outside...
...Vladimir Nabokov labored on and off for almost a decade to translate Pushkin's acknowledged masterpiece, the verse novel Eugene Onegin. Nabokov's rendering of this romantic (and mock romantic) panorama of Russian society was brilliant; yet even he decided to settle for strict literalism rather than attempt to re-create in English the Russian poet's verbal music...