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...girls most disturbed by the absence of a penis and feelings of castration may reject their toilet training, have difficulty sleeping or eating, develop a sudden interest in such phallic objects as pens and pencils, or complain to their mothers that their dolls have no penises. Even in milder cases, notes Dr. Galenson, the play of girls becomes much more intricate and involved than that of boys. "It could be," she says, "that the need of little girls to confront a frustration so early in life may lead to a lot of creative activity...
...really been the only opposition party to the Christian Democrats since the second World War. This is why we have had the Christian Democrats in power for 30 years-because of the impossibility of the alternative. At the same time, that role in opposition has made the Italian Communists milder, different, trying to prove that they could be an acceptable alternative in Western society, which is a situation different from that of any other Communist party in the world. I'm not saying they are acceptable, but they are surely trying to become so. When a party...
...very much milder agitation in the U.S., troops have been brought out, dogs have been let onto the crowds. We never brought out troops here, even after the emergency. I mean, you say that democracy is suppressed here, but it is alive enough that we just couldn't use troops in such cases...
...note. The receptionist who took it from Oswald said that he had written: "Let this be a warning. I will blow up the FBI and the Dallas police department if you don't stop bothering my wife." But Hosty recalled that the warning was much milder: "If you have anything you want to learn about me, come talk to me directly. If you don't cease bothering my wife, I will take appropriate action and report this to proper authorities...
...this year of the lucrative oil-depletion allowance, now discarded quotas on oil imports, tax preferences for foreign and domestic drilling operations. Now a wave of hostility unmatched since the breakup of Standard Oil in 1911 has plunged the oil industry into big political trouble. In one of the milder manifestations of anti-industry sentiment, the Federal Trade Commission last week took only hours to overturn a recommendation by one of its own administrative law judges and resolved to press ahead with a two-year-old antitrust suit that seeks to break up eight major oil companies...