Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Driven by libido, all children fall in love with their mothers, hate and fear their fathers as rivals. Sometimes they may love their fathers too (ambivalence), but the fundamental hostility remains throughout childhood. (Later on girls often fall in love with their fathers.) This Oedipus complex-sets the pattern for a child's response to other persons throughout the rest of his life. Normal persons outgrow the Oedipus situation by the time they reach maturity. But weaker characters cannot tear themselves away from their parents, hence, "fall into neuroses...
...establishment in Bronxville that soon became famous as a salon. She called herself Mrs. Sinclair Lewis. She had a baby. For two years she hardly read a book. She wrote some articles and short stories, but they were not enough to keep her busy. Following her inevitable pattern, she was restless and dissatisfied again. The columnist's job Saved her from boredom and turned her burgeoning energy into the channels from which she could derive the most personal satisfaction. And the ideas she had absorbed since childhood became her credo as a columnist...
...basic change in the Harvard system. President Hutchins, now 40, is impatient with all existing systems. Smart, handsome, charming, a crack money raiser, Hutchins appeared headed for undisputed place as alltime All-American college president until he soured his faculty by trying to remake Chicago on a medieval pattern. Sour or sweet, his faculty is stronger than when he arrived...
Since then the trust-busting division has been queasy of talking to industries it was prosecuting, fearful of laying itself open to the indignation of hard-boiled Federal Judges, and of public suspicion that it is using criminal inquiries as clubs to beat recalcitrant monopolists into a New Deal pattern. Last week, however, Harry Hopkins' Department of Commerce stepped into the advisory breach, announced a new Government service for harried antitrust case defendants...
Building up their argument to support a preconceived conclusion, the authors have woven various events of the past four years into an intricate pattern, and manufactured a trend. "The refugee drive, the appearance of new publications and the renaissance of the old and the increased membership of "progressive" organizations all point, the authors say, to a new undergraduate...