Word: guilts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...case of arithmetic, Skinner complained that "modern children simply do not learn arithmetic quickly or well.... The glimpse of a column of figures, not to say an algebraic symbol or an integral sign, is likely to set off--not mathematical behavior--but a reaction of enixiety, guilt, or fear...
...good humor seemed just as unruffled, his expression just as bland, when a reporter asked if he felt "any sense of guilt for your part in the Stalin purges." Replied the only surviving member of the special commission that carried out Stalin's party liquidations of the '30s: "Under collective leadership we always feel responsible for the shortcomings and errors we have made, and we openly admit them to our people. This helps rectify the position." Still smiling, Malenkov wound up confidently promising that the Soviet Union would win "the battle of coexistence" in "much less than...
...disastrously impractical joke. On a four-day pass, they bribe a pretty little Italian whore (Nicole Maurey) to teach "The Preacher" about the birds and the bees. She asks him to her room. He does not realize what she is suggesting. Like many people who suffer guilt in imagination, he is pathetically innocent in real life. She takes him on a picnic instead. He drinks buttermilk while she drinks vino, shyly confesses that she is the first girl he ever took out. And suddenly, with a luminous sweetness rarely seen on the screen, they are in love, and love transforms...
Dutch Lawyer Herman Bouman, who opened for the defense, was accused of being a criminal accomplice in the case he was defending. After police badgered him and searched his home, he fled to Holland, leaving his wife Mieke behind. The Indonesians announced that Bouman's flight proved his guilt, and the prosecution pointed an implicating finger at Bouman's wife "since especially in Western society, it is not possible that a man goes abroad without his wife knowing...
...academy's work: "A hundred million Americans [the estimated enrollment in churches] can't be wrong. Church membership is helping people to live more worthwhile and satisfying lives."* Mental health, he said, is inseparably intertwined with questions of moral values, as well as with feelings of guilt, anxiety and insecurity. Said Executive Director George C. Anderson, associate chaplain at Manhattan's St. Luke's Hospital: "The 325,000 clergymen in the U.S., teaching Sunday schools and preaching in pulpits, can foster healthy emotional attitudes if they have some knowledge of emotional dynamics. They can bring about...