Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story is of two adolescents emerging from the gawkiness of childhood to discover that they are possessed with emotions. Coming from families who never taught them the facts of life, Franco and Mirella find themselves at a loss either to explain or to channel these new-found emotions. How they resolve their conflicts in the face of hostile parents and a bigoted school system is an enthralling and delicately-done tale...
When scientists try to explain the weatherworn, lichen-covered slabs, the activities of past diggers are as much hindrance as help. Inquisitive Roman legionaries made some confusing excavations. One of the larger stones, or Trilithons, is said to have fallen in 1620 when the Duke of Buckingham dug for buried gold. For years a Salisbury hotel kept a heavy hammer for the use of guests who were amateur relic hunters...
...been declared on part of the University Administration by one Winthrop House student, an exchange of letters proved Tuesday. So far it's been a cold war, with neither side egging the other on too much. The letters, reprinted below, explain the situation...
...jailers, on the other hand, he sees as a highly organized mass. He tries to explain their psychology in the light of German traditions. First, Dr. Cohen makes a distinction between SS men who committed common acts of cruelty and those who had the job of gassing Jews. "The latter," he says, "were educated to believe that jews were inferior people, guilty of Germany's defeat in the First World War. The German superego (the interaction of parents, educators, laws of the country, rules of society) accepted these ideas . . . German education taught that you have to obey every order...
Minor mistreatment of prisoners was also part of the German pattern, in which superiors mistreat subordinates, Dr. Cohen reasons. Most difficult to explain, he found, were deliberately planned tortures. He feels these cases cannot be dismissed as simple sadism. Rather, he believes, they resulted from Freud's drive of aggression, heightened by frustration. "Normally this drive is counteracted by mental inhibitions provided by society, but Nazi society supported this aggression...