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...much to say. Theologians also have much to say about confidence and hope and the means of cultivating these good habits. ... In connection with Freud's capital concept of repression, which consists of the violent submergence of undesirable stimuli in the unconscious, they might look into its conscious counterpart, a defect of prudence which the classic moralists called inconsideratio...
This is one source of Hedda's power. When self-doubt stabs, she and Lolly, her redoubtable counterpart, pour on the balm. But the hand that drops the balm is also armed with claws. And Hedda's claws have grown long and sharp since she discovered her powers...
...nearest counterpart in the West of Chen's interpretation of San Min Chu I? He answers: "The evolutionary program, of the British Labor Party." This is only half true. Chen is certainly against capitalist free enterprise, which he would regard as too individualistic, competitive and disorderly. But his Socialism contains little of Herbert Morrison's regard for personal liberty or Morrison's preoccupation with economics...
Died. Dr. William Moulton Marston, 53, Manhattan psychologist and developer (1915) of the systolic (blood) pressure "Lie Detector"; after long illness; in Rye, N.Y. A man who never underestimated women, Marston wrote a successful comic strip called Wonder Woman (a sexy female counterpart of Superman); once announced that brunettes are more amorous than blondes; averred that in 1,000 years women would be running...
...second trouble lies in the number of courses a Biology major must take. Seven and a half courses for the honors candidate and six courses for his less ambitious counterpart leave little time for dabbling in other fields...