Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Religious groups throughout the U.S. report some success with their continued campaign to "put Christ back into Christmas." Manufacturers are only too glad to help, but the results can be odd. Some of the items offered for sale...
...Connecticut Society for Psychiatry and Neurology, which usually attracts an attendance of about 60. But the 220 seats in Fitkin Amphitheater at Grace-New Haven Community Hospital were nothing like enough: eager auditors overflowed onto the floor and sat literally at the speaker's feet; standees jammed the back of the hall, an anteroom and stairways. The word they had come to hear was entitled "Contributions of Existential Psychoanalysis." The speaker: Manhattan's Psychoanalyst Rollo May. His audience included, besides the association's hard core of psychiatrists, many members of Yale's faculties of psychiatry, psychology...
...heard of it-a pose difficult to maintain in view of the fact that the International Congress of Psychotherapy at Barcelona in September was centered on existential analysis. At this meeting Dr. May explained why its influence in the U.S. has so far been negligible. A pragmatic tradition tracing back to frontier days, he contended, has made Americans a nation of doers, suspicious of theorizing or abstract speculation. But just beneath the conscious surface. Dr. May saw in the American character a rich subsoil of concern for "knowing by doing." This brought him around to Kierkegaard, who proclaimed: "Truth exists...
...other Atlases, this one was guided by a wondrously sophisticated ground computer. Before blastoff, the Atlas' internal guidance mechanism was instructed to follow a programed course. As it rose, the Atlas reported by radio on how it was doing. Digesting this information almost instantly, the ground computer radioed back to the Atlas the proper corrections for making its actual course conform to the programed one. These course corrections were made by controllable vernier rockets and slight changes of the direction in the thrust of the main engine. When the Atlas had climbed above nearly all of the atmosphere...
...Lovell. promises to break this deadlock. Already the great radio telescopes can detect colliding galaxies (which give off powerful radio waves) at distances much greater than can be reached by an optical telescope. In a few years, improved vision should enable cosmographers to peer so far into space (or back into time) that they will be able to tell which kind of universe they are looking...