Word: distortion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...serious mistakes committed by the former leadership, especially Matyas Rakosi (now in Soviet exile), which undermined the party's authority." Said Khrushchev, in what sounded as if it might be a warning hint for Peking: "If the leadership of this or that country becomes conceited, if we distort the doctrines of Marxism-Leninism in the building of socialism and Communism, these mistakes may be exploited by the foes of Communism as they were in 1956. This cannot be allowed...
...Nikita Khrushchev is a doctrinaire Communist-a true believer; whatever he sees in the U.S., he will see through Communist glasses that will magnify and/or distort according to Communist gospel; it is therefore not realistic to think that his U.S. tour will change any of his basic ideas about the evils of capitalist society...
...fellow youths. If she and other teenagers would put down their Elvis records and Mad comics and turn to the Book of Common Prayer and the Bible, they could better understand the Psalms and Apostles' Creed, instead of having to drop them from their service or distort them so that even an Episcopalian can't recognize his own Creed...
...Greeks strove to hold a timeless image up to man. The Romans grew to love the grandiose and the particular. The Etruscans, who insisted that art must above all else be expressive, and who felt free to warp and distort their images to infuse them with energy, are equally the ancestors of Western...
Fisher's article, which is part of a longer opus on the same subject, opens some interesting questions about universal human traits other than those mentioned in this particular paper. Choosing hypotheses from the example provided by the highly developed Western method of psychotherapy may distort the investigation from the outset. Fisher recognizes this danger, yet such working hypotheses do offer the advantage of exploiting thoroughly studied Western psychoanalysis as a model for comparison...