Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...justify his philosophy that loving requires conscious effort, Fromm revises Freud's insistence on the biological nature of the sex drive. For Fromm, sex becomes just another means whereby man tries to overcome his feeling of isolation. What happens is that Fromm's Psychology becomes a psychology of the conscious rather than of the unconscious. This accounts for the feeling we get after examining the thesis; that the ability to love requires more than discipline or knowledge, at least on the level of right and wrong...
Fromm has adequate grounds for criticizing current notions of love as "sensation," or "market exchange." He also makes a worthwhile claim for a more mature idea of love based on respect for a different roles of man and woman, parent and child. But by shifting the ground to the conscious he does not seem to give enough attention to the spontaneous and erotic aspects of love which lie behind the idea of love as a sensation. Furthermore he confuses the picture of the unloving person by making him seem more capable of overcoming his state than he actually...
...whether in fact it might not spoil that naturalness that must exist if life is not to become rigid and formalized. At any rate Fromm argues for more responsibility in our interpersonal relations and less fantasy. And it is conceivable that the loving person could develop through great conscious effort that final stage of ease and naturalness that mark great artists in other areas...
Much of Whittier's popularity, on the other hand, is due to his extreme tact. Boston newspapers have painted him as an attractive young liberal, while they have grown increasingly hostile toward Furcolo. A much more reserved campaigner than Whittier, Furcolo often appears more self-conscious than confident. But a reconciliation with popular Sen. John F. Kennedy '39 and the extensive efforts of his party's bush beaters managed to give the Longmeadow lawyer an almost 3-to-1 victory in last month's Democratic primary...
...Blue. The trouble goes deeper than the quality of color. The black-and-white programs that make up the vast bulk of TV fare (80% on color-conscious NBC) often seem wan and whiskery on color sets. Color reception takes such keen tuning that many a would-be customer loses heart while the salesman fumbles. Moreover, color reception must be live to be good. In the West, where night network shows are often Kinescoped to meet the time differential, viewers complain that all the hues come out blue...