Word: burden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recognition floods in. But while a portion of these fantasies are conscious and intended, most of them are not. Sartre has, for example, to some degree, the illusion of having experienced a perfect infancy. Because his father died when he was very young, Sartre believes he escaped the burden of Oedipal difficulties stemming from father-son competition...
...might close school all day. Now station KVZK broadcasts from the two-story Michael J. Kirwan Studios at Utulei, just outside Pago Pago, from 8:05 a.m. until 2:05 p.m., and attendance at the tuned-in schools is close to perfect. Teachers from the U.S. mainland carry the burden of the TV instruction, live or on tape. Every classroom has a receiver with a 23-in. screen, and Samoan teachers with lesson guides follow up when the TV instructor is done. A U.S. principal lives in the village, helps teachers follow the curriculum...
...educated man who must bear the burden of making democracy in a technical age a responsible form of government. Though everyone, of necessity, will have to function as a specialist, it is only through the acquisition of a wide and deep general background that anyone will be able to function effectively as a citizen...
...Humphrey erroneously credits "that mythological god Atlas" with the ability "to touch the earth and gain strength" [Election Extra]. Atlas was a Titan, not a god, whose function in Greek mythology was the support of the earth on his back. His strength was sapped, not supplemented, by the crushing burden...
...Government should encourage farmers to change crops or even leave the land by progressively lowering price supports, since controls are "a mounting burden and danger...