Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Street in flowered, flared pants and "Keep On Truckin" T shirts. In just three months, International Personnel Services has recruited 500 customers. Says its manager, E.V. Nickerson: "There are a lot of Americans looking for work, and most of them don't know how to express themselves in writing. For a $100 membership, we write a resume and help a member find a job." Why do they stay on? Nickerson shrugs. "They like the life, the low taxes and the women...
...Blue Cloth, 1909; the whorls and cusps of the fabric, ultramarine laid into azure, twist and leap with the exuberance of dolphins, and are duly stabilized by the squat, familiar forms of coffeepot and flask. "Our only object is wholeness," Matisse declared. "We must learn, perhaps relearn, to express ourselves by means of line. Plastic art will inspire the most direct emotion possible by the simplest of means." And once art gained that absolute concreteness of sensation, it could become the "subject" for other art, just like a bowl or a figure...
...CONSEQUENCES of neurosis follow from the nature of the disease. The neurotic stops trying to fulfill his need because he can no longer express it. Not wishing to antagonize an unloving parent, he represses awareness of his need. Instead of behaving according to real needs, he behaves according to contrived and artificial wants which he turns to in order to relieve the pressure of needs. The pursuit of objects transformed into symbols becomes the rationale for his behavior; "symbolic behavior" seeks the release of inner tension...
...shortcomings of his theory. Most of these weaknesses appear more explicitly in The Primal Revolution, a new and less formally structured book written to answer questions Janov believes The Primal Scream leaves unanswered. The crucial weakness lies in a distinction Janus fails to make--a distinction between awareness and expression--and from his failure to fully understand the implications of the conclusion that consciousness of real needs depends upon the ability to express them...
Sheila Young, executive editor of Essence magazine, agrees. "We haven't had the comforts to get tired of. We haven't had the big house or the country club to bore us." In fact, when black women express discontent with their female roles, it is often because they already have more liberation than they want. They tend, however, to call it responsibility, since they frequently work not by choice but out of the need to support their families...