Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exactly 20 years earlier, Leningrad (then Petrograd) was, like much of the U.S.S.R., stricken with famine. Perhaps even worse, epidemics of typhoid, smallpox and other diseases were sweeping the country. But in August, 1921, Herbert Hoover's A.R.A. (American Relief Administration) arrived in the Soviet Union and for 23 months carried on a mission of mercy to Leningrad and other Russian cities...
...Herbert Marcuse, in Eros and Civilization, has used Freud's pleasure and reality principles to achieve a formulation of the resolution of the disjunctive processes of society. He foresees the complete alienation of labor, the stage at which ultimate automation has eliminated all want and necessity and minimized, to the point of elimination, the need for work. Ultimate automation will obviate the values of productivity, utility, competition and mastery and domination of the human and non-human environments which are components of the Freudian reality principle, called by Marcuse "the performance principle." The reality principle, no longer a performance principle...
Joggers - like religious fanatics -must be endowed with an abundance of faith. They assume that physical exercise is good for them, but there has been relatively little scientific evidence to back them up. Now Herbert A. deVries, a University of Southern California physical-education professor, has conducted controlled before-and-after tests and has found, he contends, that exercise makes the bodies of septuagenarians act like those of 40-year-olds...
Laing's polemic style and anti-Establishment vision have made him one of the New Left's favorite thinkers, along with Marxist Ideologue Herbert Marcuse and Social Critic Paul Goodman. His reputation in his profession is less secure. Many psychiatrists consider his social extrapolations most unscientific; his nonclinical approach to mental illness is too dependent on Laing's personal skills and mystique to be regarded as useful in other, less imaginative hands. At the same time, Laing's studies of schizophrenia are widely regarded as minor classics of their kind...
...have heard from a well-informed Republican circle that Herbert Brownell is Mr. Nixon's choice to replace Earl Warren...