Word: originated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been self-defeating in their struggle. What the Hungarians, a people of a special heritage and a unique language, did have was an overpowering common impulse, spirit or emotion, which suddenly united all classes against their enemy without the necessity of planning or leadership. The emotion had its origin in shared sufferings under the Russian police state, but it was made strong and enduring because it was tempered by that impracticable and, in Marxist terms, most despised of qualities, romanticism...
...Tory clubs. He was a maverick in Parliament, campaigning for a Canadian Bill of Rights similar to that in the U.S. Constitution, and calling for stiffer antitrust laws while the Tory Party stood for pure British tradition and unfettered free enterprise. Even Diefenba-ker's Dutch-origin name did not have a Tory ring; the party never had a leader with a non-British surname...
...Prophets. Freud, says Progoff, was guided by "the habits of mind of a medical man working with a neurological emphasis" and by his materialistic determinism, which led to his early belief that merely to analyze the origin of a condition was enough to cure it. (Also, Freud's unusual family setting, with a young mother but a father old enough to -be his grandfather, led to overemphasis on Oedipal feelings.) Though Pioneer Freud made a tremendous contribution, Progoff believes that his analytical and reductive point of view "leads to a dead end for depth psychology." At the heart...
...house, "Dun's Law" (which betrays the family's Highlands origin), will be warm enough during Christmas, despite certain draughty cracks between the kitchen part (about 130 years old) and the living room part (about 75 years old). Like most of the village houses, it has had additions, interpolations and subtractions through the years, and like many of the dwellings, it once served as a boarding house itself. Oil furnaces have made the constant struggle to keep warm only a memory, though most housewives insist that their kitchens have at least a token woodstove for toast and rice-pudding making...
...subject of his talk was "Mithras in Monreale?" Mithras was a sun deity of Indian origin. But Panofsky said he was "not concerned with Mithras so much as the spirit of the Middle Ages...