Word: mid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said one of the little boys, the black strings of his ski parka drawn up against the chill of mid-morning. "Where are you burying yours...
Eventually he wangled trips to California to cover the Chicago Cubs' spring-training camp. On one such junket, in 1937, at the urging of a Hollywood starlet he had known in the Mid west, he took a screen test before heading home with the Cubs. The first day back, he got a wire: WARNER'S OFFER...
Literature reflects the change. In the early and primitive stages, psychological motivation was probed incessantly and mechanically. Eugene O'Neill stopped his characters in mid-dialogue for asides to the audience about what they were really thinking, and every up-to-date fiction writer streamed with stream of consciousness. Dreams were busily explored for sex, and the denial of the sex instinct was blamed for nearly everything. Seducers in novels (as well as in real life) were forever telling girls: "The trouble is you're repressed...
Sensitivity training is in the same mode as group therapy, which is probably the most important U.S. contribution to psychotherapy so far. On a TV program called Therapy, carried by Los Angeles station KHJ, groups have been airing their neuroses since mid-July before an estimated 110,000 viewers. Each 45-minute installment is entirely authentic, culled from a video-taped therapy session two to three hours long, complete with real tears, confessions and accusations (obscenities are blipped out). These sessions, of course, are professionally guided, but their exposure on television contributes mightily to do-it-yourself analysis...
...restrained from dashing home during the rioting, were dead set against the notion of splitting the North into several separate regions; Easterners were threatening to secede from the nation, and arguing among themselves over internal secession from the region; Western leaders were despondent; even the tiny Mid-West-originally the only insistent voice in favor of federation-was getting cold feet. Any hopes of quick consensus were fading fast, and with the resumption of rioting, the entire fabric of nationhood was fading as well...