Word: catharsise
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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But one commentator, at least, warned against going too far. "The man who killed King was sick," wrote Max Lerner, "and there are a lot of sick people in America. But it is folly to jump from this to a total indictment of a total nation." The wave of mourning...
Catharsis School. Such shreds of research are useful, but they reveal little of the overall impact of TV on Video Boy's attitudes and behavior. The effect may be profound. Allan Leitman of Boston's Educational Development Center warns that TV is creating a generation of spectators. "Kids...
But educators are far from unanimous on the subject. There is, for example, the "catharsis school"; it contends that a little vicarious violence each day keeps the psychiatrist away. Noting that the evening news on TV is not exactly Dingdong School, San Francisco Psychiatrist Gene Sagan says that "it is...
The film's climax occurs when a member of the staff calls a meeting of the children to announce that a beloved cook has unexpectedly died. Some are stunned into silence, others burst out in self-destructive rage; two gins rend the air with mourning wails that continue into...
Sir: Your Essay, "Violence in America" [July 28], succeeded in presenting and, with characteristic guile, dismissing this contemporary problem-or rather catharsis-which demands much more than "effective law enforcement" and "elimination of the ghetto," as you succinctly put it. Detroit was decimated with death and $500 million worth of...