Word: existance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saudis never let Aramco forget that it is a private enterprise allowed to exist only by sufferance of the King. To underline the point, King Saud has gone out of his way to assert his political independence of the U.S. After a four-year trial, Saud politely ejected a Point Four mission on the ground that it was too bossy. In 1953 the Saudi government accepted a military assistance agreement, only to cancel it before it went into effect because it was contingent on too much U.S. supervision. The U.S. was allowed to build the Dhahran airfield itself only with...
...rate of delinquency for East Cambridge can thus be attributed to the strong family, religious, and civic ties which exist there. The area contains three strong, self-sufficient nationality groups, the Italians, the Portuguese, and the Poles, with a smattering of Lithuanians. Each group has its own active parish and societies, and takes great pride in the neighborhood. Despite the poor housing conditions, most families are eager to stay in the area...
Regarding the Dec. 24 article, "A Soul Without Psychology": Dr. Ira Progoff is making the same mistake as Freud, Adler, Jung and Rank have made. He is looking for an absolute truth, through which he can understand the complexities of human personality. Such an absolute probably does not exist; nor is it necessary in the study of psychology. Rather than look for something "nonrational" or spiritual (the soul), Progoff should content himself with rational probabilities. Human personality, although it is something abstract, is affected by a material environment-even in its seemingly spiritual characteristics...
...have received enthusiastic support from the insensitive exponents of mass culture, men who believe that the communication of ideas is more important than the manual arts. Of course I am not opposed to communicating ideas, and I think ideas are a good thing. But the idea that ideas can exist without a mastery of the Palmer method, without a well developed right hand, is one of the most insidious ever proposed...
...strangely subdued. Its shops, which once stayed open till the small hours of the morning, now closed at sunset, and in the Pavilion of Jade cabaret the "little flowers" found few dancing partners among the once ebullient Chinese businessmen. Officially, Cholon (which means "big market") had even ceased to exist and was simply one more district of Saigon...