Word: divest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason for this is that both playgoer and actor are forced to divest themselves of casual everyday preoccupations and behavior patterns. As Grotowski puts it, he wants to demonstrate "what is behind the mask of common vision: the dialectics of human behavior. At a moment of psychic shock, a moment of terror, of mortal danger or tremendous joy, a man does not behave 'naturally.' " By attacking the whole concept of natural behavior, Grotowski divorces himself from the cult of psychological realism, as exemplified, in the Actors' Studio. The Actors' Studio idea is that the self...
Self-Sacrifice. Taking up more substantial issues, the conference sanctioned birth control in special hardship cases, but refused otherwise to raise the lowly status of women in the Islamic world. Moslem husbands may still divest themselves of an unwanted wife by simply repeating "I divorce thee" three times. The conference also took a surprisingly moderate stand on the Middle East. It refused to consider the demand of the El Fatah guerrillas for a jihad (holy war) against Israel - and pointedly explained that the word jihad also meant sacrificing one's self for the good of mankind...
Washington's first big salvo against conglomerate corporations came only last month. It was fired by the Justice Department, which announced plans for an antitrust suit to divest Ling-Temco-Vought of its controlling interest in Jones & Laughlin Steel. Last week, "multimarket" companies, as they prefer to be called, quavered again as the Federal Trade Commission took aim at a merger by another big concern, Los Angeles-based Litton Industries...
...securities, including debentures and warrants. Last week the trustbusters threatened to seek an injunction against the tender offer, but the company negotiated an unusual pretrial compromise. Under its terms, LTV will be able to buy up additional stock. Should the Government win its case, however, LTV promised to divest itself entirely of J. & L. shares. Meanwhile, Ling and two of his representatives will resign from J. & L.'s 16-man board...
...modern mythology, like Grass or Berryman, that resonates within the being of a modern person. Part of the unacceptability of the classical myths as metaphor for modern life seems to stem from their very inaccessibility to most people, who are first not scholars, and second, are simply unable to divest themselves of the bewildering multiplicity of systems, of artifical organizations that direct our lives, serve as metaphors for themselves and are extra-human. Bergman reveals those human realities--love, doubt, shame--that have been so sadly buried in complexity, yet in a context comprehensible to any modern person who thinks...