Word: outlets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Krystal admits, some reasons for the market's slump that at first sight appear purely financial. But these realities, he insists, came into play only in a way dictated by the emotional needs of the investors. Many speculators, says Dr. Krystal. use the stock market as an outlet for their aggressive impulses. It is one place where they can make "killings" without conscious guilt. But at the deeper, unconscious level, he argues, the guilt builds up along with the wealth, and every boom must inevitably be followed by its reaction of widespread emotional depression that leads to a "fall...
...nursery-school St. George and launch one of his projectiles with a primordial roar. King Zor is already stirring up controversy among disapproving parents, who claim the toy teaches children combat. Glass disagrees, calls it a game of mechanized tag: "It is better to give a child an outlet for his combative instincts than to suppress them. He feels like a knight fighting a dragon...
...heavy New York financiers who had made a killing by selling short in the Great Crash. Then, to five of Wall Street's biggest "bears," including Bernard E. ("Sell 'Em Ben") Smith, Weston offered his idea: buy up British bakeries at Depression prices to provide a readymade outlet for Canada's vast supplies of cheap wheat. So convincingly did he argue that the five put up $2,000,000 to back his venture...
...announced the presence of circuses, and symbolized the glory of the nation. To the most humdrum of days, they added a touch of color; to the drabbest of buildings, they gave a bit of dignity; and for the vitality and imagination of a whole people, they provided the perfect outlet...
That was in 1939. Recalling the phone conversation in later years, Frankfurter said: "You know, he was given to teasing. Some people said that it was an innocently sadistic streak in him. He just had to have an outlet for fun." Behind his teasing, Roosevelt had reasons for hesitations about Frankfurter. For geographical balance, Roosevelt had wanted to name a man from the West or Midwest. Roosevelt well knew that he would stir up a storm by naming a foreign-born Jew with a well-deserved reputation as a radical advocate of liberal causes. But Frankfurter's prestige among...