Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annually creates new courses. At the same time, he runs two informal graduate seminars each week. "Parsons has influenced more young men than any other sociologist," another professor believes. Comments upon his "disciples" rum from extreme comparisons to Marx's protagonists to hesitant admissions that "there is some element of religion in his followers." Once in a graduate school seminar at which Parsons was not present, a student critized a facet of his theorizing. An indignant student, so the story goes, rose to the occasion and stood for half an hour passionately explaining how everything really did fit together...
Norm Shepard has come in for little criticism as baseball coach, but if there is one element in his strategy that Soldiers Field fans object to, it is his reliance on the bunt. And both the strength and weakness of this element in the Crimson attack were demonstrated in Saturday's game...
...pursuit: "Fat-dripping prosperity." Said the Illinois sage: "When the goal of a country is only happiness and comfort, there is danger. Albert Einstein said as much . . . Listen, 'To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me.' You see, he wants the element of struggle in life." What is life's main purpose? "Before you go to sleep at night, you say, 'I haven't got it yet. I haven't got it yet . . .' Take the man who invented the thermostat blanket. I hope he didn...
Among the mechanisms used to deal with conflicts: projection involves denial of an unacceptable element in the self and projecting it onto others, e.g., man who bangs desk and shouts: "Who's excited? You're excited, not me!" Reaction formation covers conversion of unacceptable hostility into cloying solicitousness, seen in many do-gooders and some overprotective mothers who unconsciously reject their children...
...early in the present century, and Martinson's tramps are already in rebellion against the demon of industry and the evils of an over-organized world. "Nowadays, there is an element of sadism in the very requirement that a man shall work. 'Now you shall feel it,' they say. 'Now you shall know what it feels like to break stones and trim flags.' " Each is lucidly articulate about his views. Old Road-Dust insists: "Everything is always what it is able to be and never otherwise . . . He who knows the world takes...