Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...natural man," moved by instinctual forces, is an essential element of the truth, but still inadequate. The view of man as a social creature, advanced by Sullivan and Karen Horney, adds a second dimension-but still not enough. For a full understanding, and hence for successful psychotherapy, they hold that man must be seen in his entirety, in the light of his self-consciousness, his imagination, his creativity, and his unique ability to see himself as a finite creature, poised on the brink of nothingness-as Pascal put it, "here rather than there, now rather than then...
...since World War II-was forced out by internal bickering and pressure from outside. Finland's big neighbor, the Soviet Union, recalled its ambassador, and played hard-to-get in trade talks with the Finns in a bald attempt to force a less conservative regime. The Communists, who hold 50 seats in a 200-seat Parliament, now hold something of a balance of power among the squabbling nonCommunists...
...Netherlands. Premier Willem Drees and his Labor Party (Socialists), who hold 50 out of 150 seats in Parliament, wanted to extend last year's higher taxes for two more years. The Catholic People's Party (49 seats) partner of the Socialists for twelve years, wanted a one-year extension. Down went Drees...
While these older folk (well played by Maureen Stapleton, Sig Arno, Sanford Meisner) hold Behrman's loose-leaf memory book together, younger ones are falling in love and inquiring of life. Chief of these is Willie (Eli Wallach), an unstable college student who goes in for long words and large thoughts, is forever losing himself trying to find himself, unavailingly loves one girl, is unavailingly loved by another. For all his lostness, he seems an essentially comic type till suddenly-out of Winesburg, Ohio more than Worcester, Mass.-he kills himself. Earlier, Behrman nowhere sounds the few right notes...
...cardinals, 13 are Italian. Of these, all but three hold posts either in the Curia, the church's central administration, or in the Vatican diplomatic service. Of the non-Italians, only one (France's André Jullien) is a Curia member; the rest are "pastoral" cardinals, i.e., in charge of their own sees...