Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...methods of enabling clarity to strike the mind in Kundalini Yoga is for the student to shut his eyelids and focus his eyes on an area in the middle of his forehead. While breathing deeply and rhythmically, sometimes chanting "satnam," and seated with legs crossed, the student stares for several minutes at this "third eye" area...
Wednesday's Child treats the subject of incipient schizophrenia with grim understanding. The focus of this clinical dramatization is Janice (Sandy Ratcliff), young daughter of a lower-middle-class British family, who has been more than usually bruised by the trials of adolescence. Her parents, their marriage long a stalemate of uneasily repressed hostility, commit her to the care of a therapist whose attempts to reach Janice are thwarted by his dismissal from the hospital. Wednesday's Child strains credulity here. The doctor's reasonable, low-key therapy sessions hardly seem radical enough to get him dismissed...
...little; smoke some pot, drink a little beer, look down silently and passively on the activity of Main Street. The passivity, the looking-down, the doing-very-little first alarm and then enrage the citizens of Tarbox. Editorials are written, letters sent to the editor. Undirected manias find a focus. The town's self-respect is felt to be eroding. "People are bringing the shutters down from their attics and putting them back on their windows," Updike writes. His story ends: "The downtown seems to be tightening like a fist, a glistening clot of apoplectic signs and sunstruck stalled...
Finally, on a U.S. Government-sponsored stay in Haiti he senses Jewishness as an unformed community of wanderers. Trips to Israel begin to focus his Jewish heritage. Small, spartan and disciplined by challenge, Israel for Gold seems like some sort of milk farm of the soul. The words pour out - regret for not being worthy of his past, pride at Israel's victory in the Six-Day War, and a feeling that even "the perfect story" and "the perfect girl" are not enough. Amer ica, in fact, is not enough...
...This is about the first time that there have been women teaching at this school," Ruether said She added that she felt that the focus of women's studies in religion should be complete re education since -- according to her view -- the oppression of women is similar to other kinds of domination...