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There are three principal underlying conflicts that make the student more vulnerable and insecure. First, the wish to be independent conflicts with lingering feelings of childish dependency. The other two conflicts are best described by Frik Frikson, the most through and maginative student of students. He defines one as the opposing forces pulling on the one hand towards identity formation, and on the other towards a diffusion of role, and the second as a wish to develop intimacy opposed by a conflicting pull towards isolation...
...childish vulnerability caught me by the heart and the throat, nowhere else, it seemed. But there was a touch of panic too. I knew that the finger was on me, I was limed by her and would have to struggle to get myself free. Only the space of one day, morning, noon, night, to bring such change! It was there, the trap I had tried to avoid-and would avoid!-the bitter sorrow of a love that is fruitless, pointless, hopeless, agonizing and ridiculous. Once more, the clown's trousers had fallen down...
...House Committee went a little overboard when they decided to ban all projectiles," he said. "The race could maintain its profile as a childish free-for-all if we met beforehand with all participants to discuss safety," he added...
...arrival is long overdue. To be sure, among these entries are minor and childish writings: a recollection of having cheated in a math exam, an unsuccessful attempt at light verse. But most of the 30 pieces show a heartbreaking potential. For Anne, nuances are crucial and all experiences are carefully assayed, even those that come in the Franks' pitiable Amsterdam refuge behind a wall, temporarily safe from the Nazis. Occasionally she succumbs to depression, and a line concentrates the tragedy of her people: "To be interrupted just as you are thinking of a glorious future!" Yet Anne...
...instead pared $1.1 billion from its budget by selective vetoes of spending items. The Democrats retaliated where they could, stonewalling Republican efforts to redraw the state's congressional districts and rejecting three of the Governor's high-level appointees. At times the conflict got a little childish. Last summer, when the Governor's staff began posting the number of days the Democrats had been holding the budget "hostage," the Democratic chairman of the rules committee yanked the parking passes of three of the Governor's staffers...