Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sexual attraction to the parent of the opposite sex; as a result, the child experiences guilt, fear of the other parent, and (in boys) castration anxiety. In Freudian and descendent schools in the U.S., the patient is helped to accept the idea that such transitory feelings are normal and natural, so he is relieved of his guilt and anxiety...
...Since World War II, Dr. May contends, there has been another change: most of the anxiety that he sees in practice comes not from repression of instinctual drives, but from the fact that too many people feel that life has lost its meaning for them. This, he argued, brings normal, "existential" anxiety to the surface. Nowadays, when people first sense this normal anxiety, they may still repress it, and consequently develop an ultramodern form of neurotic anxiety with symptoms of depression, blocking in regard to work, despair and melancholy summed up in the cry, "What...
Drama v. Diffusion. In the U.S. the symptoms are less dramatic and more diffuse than in Europe. In Dr. May's practice with Manhattan professional workers and exurbanite brokers and industrialists, the symptoms may be nothing more pronounced than an exaggeration of the normal routine. Wall Street and Madison Avenue, he believes, require compulsive characteristics for success. The man who succeeds in these fields, becoming a slave to routine and conformity, gets nervous when the daily cycle is broken-which explains why he drinks so much on Sundays and holidays...
Gunn (Craig Stevens) has all the normal qualifications: 1) a bachelor apartment that would do for "Baby" Pignatari; 2) a girl friend (Lola Albright) who sings in "Mother's" cabaret and waits languidly on his couch so she can boil a couple of eggs whenever he gets e; 3) a rampant palship with every list, pool shark, trigger man and le in town. But Producer-Director Blake Edwards, 36, who also writes about the Gunn scripts, believes that Pete a little extra going for him. Says ards: "We tailored him in high style, man is intelligent, dresses well...
Even in a game's quiet moments the din at the Forum is incessant. But the normal noise level increases to a rafter-raising roar when an aging, sharp-featured wingman with deep-set flashing jet-black eyes and a mop of black hair cuddles the puck to his stick, nurses it past enemy defenders, skillfully fakes the goalie out of position and flicks the rubber disk into the cage. Shouts of "Rocket, Rocket" fill the air in delirious tribute to Joseph Henri Maurice Richard, the greatest player in modern hockey history...