Word: greatest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hear them tell it last week, Mao Tse-tung was stepping serenely down from the most tedious of his five jobs, and Nikita Khrushchev was proclaiming some of the greatest victories in Soviet agricultural history...
...dislike of ceremony and his wish to "concentrate his energies on dealing with questions of the direction of policy" were the apparent reasons for his stepping down as chairman of the nation. Nonetheless, he had suffered a severe setback. The man who fancies himself the greatest living Communist theoretician was retreating from his boast of achieving true Communism ("To each according to his need") ahead of Russia, which had a 30-year head start and is still far from achieving it. Retreating from its great leap forward, the Central Party's resolution used the words gradual and gradually...
...three years (1948-51) as teacher to semi-retired Soprano Margaret Truman. Not only was [Margaret's] voice "inexperienced and rather bad," said Traubel, but her own stature in the musical world went heavily down "for ever having my name connected with such a musical aspirant. My first, greatest and unconquerable difficulty with Margaret's voice was simply keeping her on key. There simply was not enough of everything-or of anything to make her really a concert or light-opera singer. She failed because she had no gift for self-criticism...
...young psychiatrists in training. Binswanger and others named their method Daseinsanalyse, from Heidegger's term for existence, Dasein (translated as "being here and now"). The new approach was not formalized in a new school, designed to supplant earlier "depth psychology" methods, but permeated many of them. Though its greatest acceptance came among eclectics (no particular school), it has been taken up by many Freudians and some Jungians and Adlerians, and recently in the U.S. by followers of Karen Horney, Harry Stack Sullivan and Erich Fromm...
...From Ensign Teruo Yamaguchi to his father: "As death approaches, my only regret is that I have never been able to do anything good for you in my life . . . My greatest regret is [my] failure to call you chichiue [revered father]. I regret not having given any demonstration of the true respect which I have always had for you. During my final plunge, though you will not hear it, you may be sure that I will be saying chichiue to you and thinking of all you have done...