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...Winer said that in the last few days she has been "bombarded by people who were sorry about the paucity of staff members right now, but enthusiastic about the possibilities of Percussion." She has also spoken with the members of the administation and has secured their support for her endeavor...
There are many motives and mechanisms. Most striking motive, albeit unconscious, is "the psychological equivalent of murder . . . an endeavor to destroy the other person (for which there is no legal penalty). Also common, says Dr. Searles, is the need to get rid of "threatening craziness in oneself," achieved by telling another member of the family, "You're crazy." Most powerful of all, thinks Dr. Searles, is the utterly unconscious need to drive somebody else crazy so that an unhealthy state of mutual dependence can continue despite anxieties and frustrations...
...Coolidge, graduated in 1930, learned to fly at Pensacola, Fla., became a test pilot. Deeply interested in atomic physics long before the birth of the atomic bomb, he did graduate work at the University of Pennsylvania in the late 1930s ("I wanted to relax at night in some uplifting endeavor which had absolutely nothing to do with the Navy"). After combat duty in World War II, he was assigned to work on atomic-bomb projects, pursued further studies in physics at Caltech, the University of New Mexico and Stanford. Well regarded by civilian scientists and Pentagon brass for his background...
Then Elisheba Rachel Taylor repeated the pledge: "I, of my own free will, seek the fellowship of Israel . . . I believe that God is One, Almighty, All-Wise and Most Holy . . . I promise that I shall endeavor to live, as far as it is in my power, in accordance with the ideals of Jewish life . . . Most fervently, therefore, do I herewith pronounce the Jewish confession of faith: Shma yisroel adonoy elohenu adonoy echod [Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is One]. Boruch shem kvod malchuso I'olom voed [Praised be his name whose glorious kingdom...
...take both question sheet and blue book anywhere they pleased, and to talk to whomever they wished. Unable to resisted the temptation, a few girls departed for the Square to take their finals over a cup of coffee in the Bick--an atmosphere hardly conducive to serious academic endeavor...