Word: call
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...call of the golden spade yesterday summoned alumni from Boston and New York to begin the second big push of the Program for Harvard College. About 500 area chairmen and captains returned to Cambridge to speak, to watch, and to listen, as the drive for the "thinner cats" began...
Metaphoric suggestions were offered by James R. Reynolds '23, Program Manager. "You don't get many eggs if you have a great many roosters and very few hens," the amateur farmer noted. "No cow ever let down milk in response to a letter or a telephone call," he warned; "you have to sit down beside her and go to work...
...people of the Soviet Union have no concept of what we call freedom," Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt said in an address in New Lecture Hall to the Law School Forum last night...
...from expensive apartments in the best parts of town, they were forever afraid that the world was ready to laugh at them. To dull their anxiety they sought relief in drink (though none was technically an alcoholic); 15 used marijuana, and six took to heroin. Said one: "Being a call girl helped me overcome my inferiority complex. I used to feel very unattractive to men, but since so many of them want to pay me ... I guess I can't be all that unattractive." Largely because of their uncertainty about father and mother. 15 of the 20 had homosexual...
...call girls had a variety of defenses: since none was effective, they switched from one to another and clung pathetically to each in turn: 1) projection (insisting that all women would be promiscuous if they dared); 2) denial ("It's not sex"); 3) reaction formation (taking refuge in opposites, i.e., if homosexual, they tried to act heterosexual; if dependent and passive, they tried to act independent and aggressive); 4) self-abasement, amounting to masochism and self-destructiveness...