Word: normalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obscure potentially valid objections. While doll play begins at an early age, little girls continue this interest during a later period characterized by exclusion and disparagement of the opposite sex. There is much psychiatric evidence suggesting that this period of sexual disinterest has healthy purposes. It aids the normal repression of highly threatening infantile sexual conflicts and allows time for exploration and growth in the demanding process of simply learning to deal with others...
...Mistakes. Mao and his friends still sit in Peking, of course, steering China's overall course. But the Cultural Revolution so severely battered all normal channels of control and command-the party and government bureaucracies, the factories, farms and schools-that only the army remains with enough organizational integrity and discipline to pull the country back from anarchy. The P.L.A.'s commanders and fighters (its egalitarian bent permits no ranks) have practically taken political control of China: nearly all of the country's 26 provinces and regions are run by army men, and they are the only...
Metal leg braces are all too familiar to the victims of such disorders as muscular dystrophy or polio. The double-bar braces are heavy and clumsy, with a stirrup under the instep, and they induce muscle atrophy by permitting the foot to move only up and down. In normal walking, the body's weight tends to throw the heel of each foot alternately either outward or inward, depending on the terrain, but such movement is prevented by the conventional brace...
...chasing a mad scientist and seven assorted monsters who hurriedly gather their gear and escape in a Volkswagen station wagon. The only dialogue is an announcer's voiceover: "If you've created a rather large family and you have an awful lot to carry, chances are a normal station wagon won't be large enough. Maybe you ought to consider something not quite so normal-like a Volkswagen." Cost of the film: $52,000, or roughly $1,000 for each second of air time...
...asked the magistrate. Minutes later he interrupted his court-appointed lawyer and began pounding his desk. "I need some big-shot attorney who believes in the American flag. I don't want any lawyer. I'm for the public. The public is for me. I'm normal." His outburst made his condition clear. He was declared unfit to stand trial; after being diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, he was committed to Matteawan State Hospital...