Word: incubus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...result of too little self-indulgence, but of too much; not of over-restraint and inhibition, but of irresponsibility, guilt and immaturity. "Above all," Mowrer concluded, ". . . the ethical accomplishment of untold past generations, as imbedded in the conscience of modern men & women, is not a stupid, malevolent archaic incubus, but a challenge and guide for the individual in his quest for self-fulfillment and harmonious integration." (For a psychologist, it was almost a psalm...
...clock one morning last month a Bulgarian beat frantically on the door of the U.S. representative in Sofia. When the door opened, he fell inside with a grateful cry. This week he was still there, a diplomatic incubus and a living incitement to ask: what is going on in Russian-liberated Bulgaria...
...Terrible Incubus. Julian was spellbound at the wonderful simplicity of this social order. Few present-day readers, having observed the results of state collectivism in practice, would be so uncritical. Edward Bellamy's present (and first) biographer. Dr. Arthur E. Morgan, is also a distinguished visionary: former president of pioneering Antioch College and onetime chairman of TVA. He readily admits that Bellamy's projected social system "would result in actual regimentation" and, if administered by the wrong officials, "might be a terrible incubus on society." But Looking Backward was a warmhearted vision which unquestionably speeded social reform...
...premature armistice allowed the Germans to believe that they had not been defeated on the battlefield, but tricked by allied promises not kept and stabbed in the back by unpatriotic elements within Germany. Faith in the invincibility of the German army remained and the incubus of Prussian militarism on the German mind was not broken. In face of this the victors did not cooperate, to enforce the peace, to prevent aggression, and to solve the problem of the security of France and of the small nations...