Word: childishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prepared to open a Munnings exhibit. Of the 61 canvases he had gathered, 15 were recent paintings of blue-blooded hunters and racers lent by the artist, seven were early studies of country horses lent by the city of Norwich. To the seven, Munnings made violent objection: six were "childish beginnings" that he had outgrown, one he had not even painted. He insisted that all seven come down...
...psychiatrists, Linnea's case was no puzzle. Anorexia nervosa (hysterical lack of appetite) often occurs in unstable women who are unconsciously afraid to grow up, and, according to Freudians, derive a childish sexual pleasure from finicky eating (oral eroticism). Some, like Linnea, gorge themselves on childish foods, others retreat all the way back to the suckling stage, stubbornly take nothing but milk. From such disastrous whims, say doctors, few recover...
Most powerful force which drives human beings, said Freud, is a primeval sex instinct, the libido. During childhood the libido is bound up with such experiences as eating, excreting and thumbsucking. In later years the libido may be transferred to another person (marriage), may remain grounded in childish sex play (perversion), or may overflow as artistic, literary, or musical creation (sublimation). In fact, said Freud, greatest source of creative work is the sex instinct...
...which he might well have cribbed from Joseph Stalin: Germany and Italy are the "great proletarian powers among European nations, robbed of their natural living rights by plutocratic States that have amassed vast riches by plundering and oppressing whole continents." For the Poles he chose these words: "Such silly childish political infants must be taught with a whip on the pants...
...know with what object the Crimson prints almost daily reports of the number of signatures of the petition for retaining Mr. Hicks as a member of the Harvard Faculty. In view of the fact that the petition bears no official character whatsoever, it would seem better to disregard such childish agitation, all the more since this petition can by no means be regarded as representing a consensus of student opinion...