Word: mask
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longer placated by the hypocritical rhetoric used by the administration to mask the institutional racism on this campus. The college is turning its back on the black students, as though we should be "grateful" just to be at Fair Harvard. "Veritas" as a motto is a farce. There has been a failure of those in academia to come to grips with the substantive issues in reality, without some form of condescension or patronization; they say that progress has been made, while defining that progress themselves. We are no longer fooled...
...Sydow's naked ex-mistress (Ingrid Thulin), who seduces him, then ridicules him before the others. The castle takes on the air of a Dadaesque painting: a man walks the ceiling and the walls, like a fly; the old lady peels off her face like a mask, then drops her eyes in a wineglass. A malignant bird pecks away at Von Sydow as if he were Prometheus chained...
...played the piano," had the nerve to tell off Big Lin and pop him in the nose "Suddenly Bobby shouted: 'Don't worry, Eugene, I'll protect you,' and Bobby socked Big Lin in the back of the head with the catcher's mask." After that "nobody thought much of Bobby. They figured maybe he was a lot more sly than he was brave...
...series of episodic developments in the rivalry between a lusty, gusty bum called Wacholder, who wallows in a mountainous litter of crumpled papers and stacked cartons, and his neighbor Wurz. An obsessive-compulsive bacteriophobe, Wurz even dresses in a sterile white jump suit and dons a surgical mask and rubber gloves to have sexual intercourse with his masked, gloved wife...
...emotional disorder. No one would wish to institute psychotherapy with young men or women whose painful struggles are moving them closer to an understanding of themselves or of their relationship with the external world. But for other individuals, hard to distinguish from their fellows, the general confusions of adolescence mask a diffusion and despair not characteristic of a developmental phase, but indicative of emotional disorder. This differentiation of normal developmental crisis from emotional disorder, this ability to pick out disturbance but to avoid potentially weakening or infantalizing interference must be the concern of every educator and mental health worker...