Word: needing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This need for creativeness was the basis of Berdyaev's antiCommunist, anti-capitalist social philosophy, which he called "personalism." Like most 20th Century thinkers, he saw the contemporary world as in a state of flux between the final breakup of an old civilization and the beginning of a new. Christians, he argued, must concentrate...
...Project set up a mental hygiene clinic for delinquents, boys' clubs and summer camps. It got after-hours jobs for the older boys. It organized child-psychology courses for parents and teachers. It negotiated truces between gangs. It investigated homes and health, gave psychiatric help to kids who needed it. Almost every truant and delinquent turned out to need such help...
...document was published at a time in the world's history when the need for such a constitution was more desperate and the chances of its adoption more remote than ever. Not even the drafting committee itself had been able to agree on the noble synopsis of salvation, to which half a hundred sovereign nations would have to agree before it could become reality. The committee's own chairman, Philosopher Richard McKeon, refused to sign the draft because he disagreed with it. Said Hutchins: the report was something to talk about...
...priest reported the latest Communist tactics. Peripatetic comrades in impressive, official-looking dress visit the peasants to ask if the roof is leaking or whether they need new farm equipment. Jotting down the peasants' eager answers, the Communists say: "It's up to you now to get these things. All you have to do is vote...
...Neurotica was a quarterly put out by nonneurotic St. Louis Antique Dealer Jay Irving Landesman, 29. Said he: "Most of my friends are writers and artists and all of them are neurotic as hell. We decided there was a need for a magazine to explore the problems of the neurotic personality." Among the contributions were poems by Kenneth (Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer) Patchen and Conductor Leonard Bernstein (who called his poem Life Is Juicy). The lead article (by Londoner Rudolph Friedmann) began: "Getting married is the best way of taking regular exercise. In order to encourage his libido...