Word: complexities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Inasmuch as we have been unable to discover any psychologically understandable process to account for the schizophrenic complex, I draw the conclusion that there might be a toxic cause. That is, a physiological change has taken place because the brain cells were subjected to emotional stress beyond their capacity ... I suggest that here is an almost unexplored region, ready for pioneering research work...
Under Piasecki's direction, and with the aid of lavish government subsidies, PAX blossomed into a sprawling industrial and propaganda complex. It published magazines and books, controlled factories producing everything from shoes to metal goods, ran its own motor pool, its own high school and hospitals. It also had a lucrative monopoly of the sale of devotional items and religious literature in Poland...
Switzerland's Carl Jung came still closer to man's spiritual core. Adler had broadened the picture to include social instincts; Jung deepened it to include religious instincts. From Jung's complex and often obscure theories Progoff distills an essence: that mankind has a collective "Self," which can be fully realized only through a religious outlook, regardless of creed. This abstract Self, with many features of the ancient soul, is utterly foreign to the sexual debris that Freud found at the bottom of the unconscious well...
TIME was when the maintenance problem of armies consisted of little more than shoeing horses and hammering out the dents in a knight's armor. But in today's supersonic and electronic age, the task of caring for a stable of increasingly complex weapons and equipment has become a major problem for the military, and a challenge and opportunity for private industry. Of the Defense Department's $7 billion maintenance budget in fiscal 1956, nearly $1.4 billion was for overhauling, and a fourth of this went to U.S. business for its part in maintaining the nation...
...writing this letter since I feel that it is important that key people in American universities should understand Israel's position in today's "One World." To be sure, the problem is very complex and since nations usually deal with situations in the light of their own interests I should like to point out what seems to me to be in America's best interest in the present Middle East situation...