Word: debunks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although women shouldn't feel called on to repudiate old-fashioned roles and values in the search for a new identity, these writers suggest that something different and more rewarding is possible, something more willfull and willed. And they affirm that it is necessary to debunk old mores on the level of one-to-one relationships between men and women before you can proceed to the larger issues and ambitions...
...movie Play It Again, Sam. Allen was one of them. "If I only knew where my damn analyst was," he wailed. "Where do they go every August?" The answer, of course, is that they go on vacation. Some psychiatrists say they choose August because Freud did, though others debunk that notion as too Freudian. "An August vacation," explains Dr. William Frosch, a Manhattan psychiatrist, "is built into your training from the start. Your analyst took August and so you start doing so yourself...
...itself to the point where it can now make money on the buttons, bumper stickers and other gimmicks they are turning out. The question remains though, about the purpose. It certainly doesn't seem logical to go to such lengths to create an on-going nationwide organization just to debunk official celebrations. Were that the case, the PBC could be expected to wither rather quickly away sometime around July 5, 1976 after a last gasp in Philadelphia. But they don't plan to go away...
...William A. Nolen, author of The Making of a Surgeon (1970), is hardly the first member of his profession to debunk faith healing, but he is the first to write open-mindedly about metaphysical medicine. He became so imbued with investigatory zeal that he subjected himself to a "psychic operation." The result of his two years of research is a book that should serve as a warning to any patient who prefers spirits to science...
There is also abundant evidence to debunk the fluke election theory. Unidad Popular, the six-party coalition which backed Allende in 1970, won 51 per cent of the votes in the April 1971 municipal elections. Traditionally, ruling parties lose votes in the mid-term congressional elections; in March 1972, Unidad Popular raised its national vote count to 43 per cent of the total electorate. The right, which expected to take 60 per cent of the vote in 1972 began to fear that UP would win with 75 per cent...