Word: creed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quietly, we act," he says, reciting the creed of the world of small cells, aliases and coded contacts in which he operates as a contact man between political and military units. He is impressed by the heavy arms he now sees coming into the country and by the openness with which freedom fighters walk about, even in the urban townships. He boasts: "There is no doubt that we are winning. The people think we are winning. The army thinks we are winning...
That sort of dilution of the Freudian creed is already far advanced, and some critics predict that classical psychoanalysis will soon be extinct. The 1976 survey by the American Psychoanalytic Association showed that 70% of its members' patients were already receiving some kind of therapy other than psychoanalysis. Since there is no agreement on what works, Freudians?along with neo-Freudians, psychologists, counselors and Pop therapists?are all increasingly eclectic, borrowing bits and pieces of one another's methods. Even at hospitals still dominated by Freudian theory, psychiatric residents now get far more training in neurology, biochemistry, hypnosis and behavior...
...Tillie Olsen it is the natural need of the talented to express themselves. Social forces and norms create many barriers to the realization of talent. "Throughout the ages the greatest silencers have been: sex, race, and creed." She writes of the silences of ages past so that literature might be cracked open and the many missing experiences added to it. She ends her book Silences with a quote by Virginia Woolf which opens up literature to the realities and needs of everyone...
...this." The other important task of the time is to change the old, pointless images which hamper expectations and hopes. When we remove the stigmas which bar the realization of dreams, then the inner soul will flourish in a body of meaningful literature, regardless of sex, color, or creed...
Finagle's Creed. Science is truth: don't be misled by facts. Finagle on corrections: When an error has been detected and corrected, it will be found to have been correct in the first place.−;Anonymous