Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...active, or he may be capable of only low, incoherent mutterings. He cannot sleep; he trembles constantly; he is deeply prostrated. If he is to die, death ensues usually between the ninth and twelfth days. Otherwise on the 13th or 14th day, the high fever suddenly drops to normal, all symptoms rapidly disappear...
Newsmen soon found further points of Grosz normality. Said he: "American beer is quite nice, light, absolutely good. but not to compare with German beer." He has hobbies: carpentry, collecting etchings (Rowlandson and Daumier). He smokes a pipe, rarely a cigar. He is married, has two boys, aged 7 and 3, both quite normal...
...week was a mild, fine-featured little man with precise measuring gestures. His face was ruddy, slightly chubby, kindly, with serious brown eyes, an occasional nervous blush, a baldish brow. His clothes were those of any prosperous American at a baseball game. This, no monster, was George Grosz, 38, normal citizen, husband & father. He resembled none of his subjects, save for teeth slightly muskrat. He was largely unaware of the Sloan-Lie difficulties, had not yet met Mr. Lie. No Communist, he voted for von Hindenburg in the last German election...
...House and by the Senate. There was drafted the law as taxpayers will actually feel it. In the trading across the table, Utah's grey old Reed Smoot, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and leading Senate conferee outargued all five Representatives. For his side he won higher normal and surtax rates on income (TIME, June 6), tariffs on copper and lumber as well as coal and oil (TIME, May 30), excise on tires, a levy on bank checks, a cut in the stock transfer tax-all Senate items. In all, 52 disputed provisions in the big bill were...
Causes. At the American Psychiatric meeting in Philadelphia last week Dr. Gregory Zilboorg, member of the brief Kerensky Government of Russia, asserted that a "death drive" exists in many "if not a majority" of normal individuals. There "must be something about those individuals (within them) that leads them to solve their problems by means of self-inflicted death?something besides despair, financial straits, failing health. . . ." The "death drive," as he interprets it, is very often the result of an unconscious desire to punish oneself severely...