Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...declare him, too, mentally unbalanced, thus inflicting on him the very punishment he denounced. His latest protest may be a straightforward act of great courage, in disregard of consequences. But it may also be a last-ditch effort at self-preservation since, in view of the worldwide attention drawn by Solzhenitsyn's outcry, Russia's rulers might hesitate to move against him. To what extent such tactics might work is doubtful, as is suggested by the case of the brilliant young author Andrei Amal-ric. He was allowed to protest publicly for so long that some intellectuals actually...
Long sleepers, in contrast, checked out as nonconform ist, shy, somewhat with drawn, and melancholy. Reports Hartmann: "Almost all showed evidence of some in hibition in the spheres of sexual or aggressive functioning." Some betrayed "mild anxiety neuroses" and depression. Moreover, they slept fitfully, waked often and typically got up with a mild case of the morning blahs...
There are other implications in Brody's findings. He noted that "Freud's patients were drawn exclusively from the upper and middle class." Brody asks: "Is it possible that something in the ideology and technique of analysis makes it difficult for lower-class people to use successfully...
Another of the lines along which this division is drawn is that of violence. The more moderate group feels that violence will only alienate the rest of society, and is basically useless. The other group is suspicious of those who draw the line at violence, feeling what they may really be objecting to is the possibility of rebellion...
...easily seducible character have to offer. It is not the natural voice of John Updike, of course, though Bech experienced early fame like Updike and some of their travels have been the same. The basic Bech is a gently satiric caricature of a Jewish literary heavyweight. His qualities are drawn from the congregation of Eastern Liberal intellectuals whose ranks, incidentally, have sheltered some of Updike's more ferocious critics...