Word: couch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being driven by his unconscious, tended to undercut the notion of will. Writes Italian Psychoanalyst Roberto Assagioli: "The will can be truly called the unknown and neglected factor in modern psychology, psychotherapy and education." San Francisco Psychoanalyst Allen Wheelis agrees. "Knowledgeable moderns put their back to the couch, and in so doing may fail to put their shoulders to the wheel." But this should change. Wheelis talks about the desirability of "self-transcendence, a process of change that originates in one's heart and expands outward," beginning with "a vision of freedom...
...audiences, so Young married the two in 1933, eventually gave them a son and daughter and all the trappings of middle-class life. Dagwood evolved into the harried family man who sought solace in the simple joys of hot baths, gargantuan sandwiches and surreptitious naps on the living room couch; Blondie was his loyal but slightly scramble-witted better half. The central cast and simple plots of Blondie remained virtually unchanged for decades, inspired 28 movies and a TV series, and earned Young $300,000 a year in royalties...
...waiting room was small and from couch to couch, filled. There were ladies with nervous lovers; ladies with the makeup and hairstyles of streetwalkers, bored, as if this was but one weekly visit among many; ladies middle aged and unmarried, with sad eyes, perhaps realizing they were losing the strings which bound their lovers: young girls, just eighteen, loud and obnoxious, travelling in hordes, cheering the one in trouble and "we hitched from Boston, only took us four hours," said to no one in particular. There were ladies married, too old to bear the children, frightened, and ladies, twenty...
AFTER SHE GETS warmed up, and has mastered a peculiar sneering smile, Stockard Channing as Alice puts on a pungent performance that has apparently learned something from Elizabeth Taylor. Throwing back her head in a hollow laugh, grandly reclining on a couch, she is just decent enough to her husband to make it hurt when she finally applies the knife...
DARTMOUTH-PRINCETON -- My roommate at boarding school did get into Dartmouth, and he's had everything Brad always wanted. The last time I saw him, he was wearing his green freshman numeral sweater and making out with his girl on my couch...