Word: leeway
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...Roazen notes admiringly throughout his critique. It is a power that derives from Erikson's determination to concentrate on the positive strengths of man's ego, rather than on the negative threat of the aggressive id, as Freud did. Erikson's work is full of words like "adaptation," "leeway," "growth," and "ingenuity;" he moves past Sigmund and Anna Freud's focus on the defenses that repress or rechannel erupting inner drives, emphasizing instead the "potentialities" of fuller ego-adaption, attained through a mutually reinforcing and self-fulfilling relation between psychology and culture. "'Leiben und arbeiten' (to love and to work...
...exciting thoughts about the role of perspective in establishing identity, he probably overestimates the general appeal of these insights. And when he rejoices over the spirit of gamesmanship that went into the founding of America and the Constitution, and goes on to praise the "leeway" that American society has allowed for people to test their psycho-social potential, in his excitement he seems to ignore the fact that American society has also deprived whole classes and races of the fundamental hope and stability needed to foster a sense of playfulness and to take advantage of social "leeway...
Freewheeling Style. The story is much the same in Latin America. From Rio, TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand cables that Carter's concern with human rights at first prompted the Chilean and Argentine regimes to grant dissenters a bit more leeway. But in the past week "Argentina barred those held under the state-of-siege regulations from leaving the country-an option they had before. In Chile, the official state of siege has been extended for six more months, and last week the Christian Democratic Party and three other political groups were outlawed...
...they also--particularly the dancers and the bathers--gave him leeway to play fast and loose with neo-classical conservatism. He tested the capacity of elegant design to withstand challenging poses. With the dancers, Degas takes on very difficult ballet postures and flirts wtih disequilibrium. With the bathers--and some of the horses--he plays the voyeur, catching his subjects in ungainly and at times vulgar contortions. Yet throughout his eye for "arabesque" (a term borrowed from dance, meaning "overall pattern of line") prevails, and his statuettes withstand his often perverse challenges. It is as if Degas wanted to tease...
Bains noted that the past years have seen a lack of student input, and that Food Services is likely to do little to initaite change. Change, according to Weissbecker, can be most effectively accomplished at the House level by individual managers, who have considerable leeway in decision-making within their particular facilities...