Word: couching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when students couch their dissent in more limited terms, like sit-ins or petitions, administrators form The Committee To Investigate. The committee is established to allow those in charge to change the context of the argument. The issue will then be considered in their terms, not the protestors...
...delineating character, Portnoy recreates monsters. When Holden Caulfield told it all to a psychiatrist in Catcher in the Rye, it was really just a narrative device, just an excuse for the telling of a story. In the case of Portnoy, we never forget that he is lying on the couch. He is recreating the past from a specific, highly-emotional point in the present. Emotion recollected in tranquillity turns into hysteria. Each time Portnoy's mother Sophie reappears, another bit of horror is added. Portnoy justifies it all by saying she wears "the old self-conscious on her sleeve...
Strung out on Dr. Spielvogel's couch, Portnoy becomes the first of the lie-down comics. Raised in Newark and now holding the post of Assistant Human Opportunities Commissioner in New York City, he renders his past absurd in an attempt to lessen its painful grip on him. He keens the familiar tale of the strongwilled, overattentive mother and the castrated father. He tells how his mother fondled him during toilet training, how she eroticized the insides of his ears while removing the wax, and how she forced him to eat at knife point. Portnoy is continuingly being floored...
...line of Joey Cavanagh centering for wings Steve "Couch" Owen and Dan "The Monk" DeMichele has build its success on teamwork and has contributed heavily to Harvard's overall record of 15-4-1 and Ivy record...
...respondents have reasonably serious phobias. "They know as well as we do what the problem is. It's not some general neurosis, but a narrowly specific fear. Our approach," he said, "will be behavior therapy, not psychotherapy. In other words we don't put people on a couch and bring in a bearded German doctor with a notebook...