Word: minde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past twelve years he has been turning out TIME's Newswatch column. Readers who have come to know and respect the column's level-headed analyses of the press and its foibles will not be surprised to learn that the reader comes first in Griffith's mind. "I never considered it my role to defend the press," he says. "I start with the reader's curiosity and concern about the information he's getting. Sometimes this means explaining what the press does, sometimes deploring...
Freud the boy identified himself with Hannibal of Carthage. Freud the founder of the new "mind science" continually sought to assert his authority over associates, nearly all of them Jews. His colleagues appear to have been a touchy lot. Minor disputes frequently ended in nasty breakups and castings- out. But Freud's greatest distress came in dealing with Carl Jung, the son of a Swiss pastor, whose differences with his Viennese teacher had origins in the varying perspectives of Christianity and Judaism. Gay describes two meetings with Jung at which Freud fainted...
...April has a great reputation in the world at large. If you asked your average man on the street for the first April phrase that came to mind, odds are he'd mumble something about April "showers", or about April being the cruellest month...
...house masters next week should keep in mind that any ceilings would restrict students' choice. It's time they realized that undergraduates are mature adults who can make their own decisions about where they want to live and who they want to befriend...
...Dalai Lama spends much of his time reflecting on how Tibetan Buddhism can teach, and learn from, other disciplines. He believes, for example, that Buddhism can show Marxism how to develop a genuine socialist ideal "not through force, but through reason, through a very gentle training of the mind, through the development of altruism." He sees many points of contact between his faith and "psychology, cosmology, neurobiology, the social sciences and physics. There are many things we Buddhists should learn from the latest scientific findings. And scientists can learn from Buddhist explanations. We must conduct research, and then accept...