Word: avoid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stalin, not Tukhachevsky, was the traitor. The stigma of betrayal has been transferred from the army to the party. The army is now formally absolved from blame for the loss of millions of lives and countless treasures in the first phase of the war. The party is maneuvering to avoid blame by holding the mad Stalin responsible, but there is still no certainty that it will be successful in doing...
...theory or practice. But the progressive states making radical and energetic attacks on the problem of mental illness are doing so under the leadership of psychiatrists who owe most of their orientation to Freud. Even among psychiatrists who confine their practice to analysis, it is now the practice to avoid complete allegiance to Freud and be an eclectic-a picker and chooser among all the theories and systems of psychology. But psychiatrists trained in the last quarter century and virtually all those now in training have an outlook that is rooted at least 70% in concepts and practices springing straight...
...Freud, results from unsuccessful attempt by the personality to achieve harmony among id, ego and superego, and this failure in turn results from arrest of development at an immature stage. Commonest cause of emotional disharmony: failure to resolve Oedipal feelings. Example: many girls who profess to seek marriage actually avoid it because the prospect activates the threat of unacceptable emotions which are fixated to their fathers...
Although the Terriers will have two excellent men at first and second singles, Sheldon Caldwell and Tom Kerr, they will be hard-pressed to avoid a shutout at the hands of the varsity which boasts a 5-2 record so far this year. The only two defeats came against the University of North Carolina...
First, he believes, the forces which determine the students' attitudes towards their work are at fault. Fear boredom and other anxieties keep the students' minds away from the business of learning. Half a century ago, he writes, "for the immediate purposes of education the child acted to avoid or escape punishment. It was part of the reform movement known as progressive education to make the positive consequences more immediately effective, but anyone who visits the lower grades of the average school today will observe that a change has been made, not from averse to positive control, but from one form...