Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heroine's case history is based on precisely the kind of Freudian detective work which the book avoided. The writers decided that Virginia Cunningham was a schizophrenic,* suffering from the most common of the serious mental diseases. As the cause of her difficulties, they chose inadequate parents, who burdened her with a guilt complex plus a father fixation. The case history, revealed in a series of flashbacks throughout the picture, includes familiar items: a little girl who loves her father but feels rejected by him, a broken doll identified with Daddy, a husband whom the heroine cannot love because...
...many of whom criticized Barth as advocating a passive "let-God-do-it" approach to the problems of our time. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr attacked Earth's speech as offering "a too simple and premature escape from the trials . . . duties and tragic choices which are the condition of our common humanity" (TIME, Nov. 8). Last week an English translation of Earth's speech was printed in the Christian Century. Excerpts...
...group of insurance companies snapped up $143 million worth of Transcontinental bonds. Another $26.5 million came from the sale of notes, convertible into preferred stock after the pipeline is completed. The rest came from common stock privately sold for $10 a share...
...their enterprise, Fish, Pipeline President Williams and the group of original promoters already had a fat paper profit. To start, they had put up $11,600,000 in all, for 1,610,000 shares of common stock, thus getting it at $7.20 a share. As the rest of the common stock which was sold went for $10 a share, they already had a paper profit of close to $4.5 million...
Personally I am concerned with the squirrels though. There are lots of pigeons, more famous ones, in lots of places, e.g. Venice. But the real Harvard squirrel is something entirely different, even from the Boston Common variety: the genius loci had the same effect as Orpheus' lyre...