Word: curing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which has stressed the positive values in the individual's interaction with society-often in contrast with Founder Freud's profoundly pessimistic view that society demands repression as the price of its cultural fruits and that repression produces a basic human neurosis for which there is no cure. Psychoanalysis, he once said, could only relieve a patient of his misery, leaving him with the ordinary unhappiness that is common to mankind...
...indictment of violence as the "cancer" in society, Wertham Believes that there is a cure. It is nothng less than a gradual change in nearly 11 of man's ways of looking at life, at war, at himself. Poverty and racial rejudice are obviously powerful incitements to violence, but so, he says, is the lassie American emphasis on getting head. The individualism and selfishness inherent in an acquisitive society beget a climate of violence, as does hypernationalism. A Sign for Cain will give readers a healthy dose of "the dignity of indignation," but it does not offer much hope...
...world after Mexico City and Guadalajara. Many voters have got the impression that Yorty has "stood up to the Negroes." He has scored Pat Brown and Washington for stirring up the hopes of Los Angeles Negroes, repeatedly blamed outside agitators for Watts's troubles. Doing little to cure slum conditions, he has concentrated on preventing new ghettos from developing-advocating, for example, a policy of "integration without
Last week the New York Herald Tribune was mercifully killed after a 20-year illness for which there was no longer any cure. Cursed by a second 114-day strike in three years, the Trib's owners examined its future. The pre-strike circulation of 303,000 seemed likely to slip to 200,000, half their break-even point. Advertising would certainly decline; editorial staffers had already deserted in droves. There was little of tangible value left, except the paper's past great reputation...
...taken up nursing, she is sick to death of all the killing, and decides to support the powers that be for the sake of peace and quiet. She joins the SS nursing corps, but discovers to her horror that SS nurses are better trained to kill than to cure. As her personal tragedy unfolds in the foreground, the national disaster is glimpsed in the background: bobbies accompanied by German tommy gunners, state offices staffed by arrogant blackshirts, press oppressed, radio reduced to martial music and rigged news, ghettos behind barbed wire, extermination depots scattered through England's green...