Word: barriere
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...which he is master because it is incom prehensible to others: he is alone, but at least he is boss. In literature and drama, he has just moved through a long period of writing psychiatric case histories, and is now experimenting with improvised works that seek to destroy the barrier between audience and artist. His traditional role is to assume the burdens of guilt and anxiety freely, transforming them in his own soul into works of art that can offer the audience catharsis or clarity. This is the function for which the artist is applauded, adored?and paid. More...
...success. A British export, the book lacks the clubby good humor of Parkinson and Potter, substitutes instead the wittily barbed aphorisms of the success man's ascent ("New friends are best friends"). Cocktail party Platos will find a host of new S-Man concepts, including the Inhibition Barrier, the Law of Party Parity, and the Prostitute's Fallacy ("A sign of stagnancy is to do the same thing again for the same amount of money...
...urge you not to do it. You will open the floodgates of hatred." The morning after his historic nomination, the nominee was surprised to receive a telegram from the same Jewish organization, hailing his nomination as a "triumph of the American dream that neither religion nor race is a barrier to public office." The telegram also asked him to endorse the organization's statement that there is no such thing as a "Jewish vote," and that Americans vote solely on the basis of what is best for America. Summoning his assistant, Meyer said: "Brady, tell them I endorse their...
...Nigeria, the judiciary serves as a barrier between the powers of the executive and the rights of the individual, he said. Individuals can go to court if ministers of state exceed their delegated authority...
...only when he had to take medication. But at a Christmas party in the ward the volunteers induced him to make a greeting card, and as he wrote "Merry Christmas" on it he said, "I can't write too well. I can't write too well." Once the barrier had been cracked even slightly, he grew steadily more responsive, and in a short time was going on walks outside the ward...