Word: homeyness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seasonable Start. In many places, today's Christmases are still rich with those old homey flavors-though White Christmas threatens to supplant Silent Night, Christmas trees glitter with baubles, bangles and winking lights that Grandfather never dreamed of, and, for some, dinners at Howard Johnson's have replaced the huge old feasts...
Ever since the Saturday Evening Post merged with Respectability, the association has proved mutually profitable. Looking at the naughty but innocent urchins on its cover, the thrilling but insipid fiction in its pages, the homey cartoons, the clever "Perfect Squelch," and the biting but conservative editorials, one wonders whether America was conceived in the Post's image, or vice versa...
Power Drive. Anxiety won belated recognition as a social phenomenon in the U.S. from Karen Homey. Erich Fromm and Harry Stack Sullivan. To Fromm, the Freudian frustration of sex energy becomes anxiety only when it involves some value or way of life that the individual holds vital to his security?for instance, the prestige of having a pretty wife. Horney believed that Freud put the cart before the horse; anxiety, she held, came before the instinctual drives?...
...important event in the lives of the hero and heroine came one night when the tired husband donned pajamas, jumped into bed, and put his arms around his wife, whereupon she said, "Let's get the colored lights going." Divorce proceedings began the next morning. In Mary, Mary, this homey incident is key, and if you can appreciate why this should be so, you will be taken up in the psychological struggle before...
Meyer speaks slowly, seeming to deliberate over the specific word that will best express each thought. His wry optimism and homey mannerisms have led some to compare him with Lincoln, and his own special synthesis of principle and realism strengthens this impression. "They may call me naive, but I have my streaks of skepticism and bitterness, you know. Life demands that everybody work out his own compromises and settlements...