Word: karens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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?...
...white demigoddess to servants on her Kenya coffee plantation, Danish-born Baroness Karen Blixen once beat back two lions with a bull whip, earned the affectionate appellation "Honorable Lioness." But in 1931, when the coffee market crumbled, she returned to her native land, assumed a name now known and respected throughout the literary world-Isak Dinesen. Last week at 75, the wispy (her weight: 70 lbs.) writer was honored with a statue of herself by California Sculptor Emile Norman. Depicting a wraithlike priestess with a lion and a bird, the work evoked the pre-Mau Mau Kenya that Isak Dinesen...
Tomlinson also crowned himself "King of Radcliffe" in a day full of royal activities. He planted his "all-nations flag of peace" in the snow outside the Radcliffe Library last night and proclaimed Gertrude McC. Askew '64 and Karen S. Lipschultz '64 as "queens" of the Theocratic Party...
...Gail Olmstead, pregnant with her second child (the first: Karen, 2), spent the empty, endless weeks of waiting at her parents' home in Plainfield, N.J. It was hard to maintain her husband's faith that everything would work out, that they would be back together soon. The details of Bruce Olmstead's confinement were not encouraging: "I am kept alone in a cell but am not being abused." Prison, he wrote, "has pretty well shown me that I couldn't quite make it as a cloistered monk. I am given cigarettes, hon, and filters at that...
...husband and wife. Her mood-dry, elegiac, wounded yet unbleeding-strongly echoes that of the aristocratic author of the brilliant 19th century Sicilian chronicle and recent bestseller, The Leopard; this somehow befits a woman whose African nickname was "Honorable Lioness" and whose real name and title are the Baroness Karen Blixen...