Word: pent-up
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...steadily accumulating mass of literature, smacking strongly of Freud and driving the debonair dandy and the dilettantish debutante into a maze of inhibitions and high-priced psychiatrists. This clever satire, minus the usual steel edge, will, the Vagabond is convinced, be an excellent defense mechanism against the strongest pent-up fixation. It is funny...
This year the exodus may be unusually glad, for students may use their vacation to celebrate Easter as well as Patriot's Day. How seldom it is that indifferent Cantabridgians can spare time for the annual egg-rolling on the White House lawn. Whether pent-up youth spends his father's substance on gilded night clubs or goes North "where hill is heaped on hill, the CRIMSON wishes him the top of the season--nor does it fail to drop a tear for the divisional-ridden senior sophister...
...should be ultimately grateful to God for the gift of appreciation and of individuality. Religious worship affords an outlet for the personal gratitude one feels for life. Without this emotional outlet or without the solace of artistic creation, humans could not endure their own pent-up gratitude...
...sprit of eternal goodness and truth and beauty that breaks the yearning heart. Contemplation of this beauty lifted the worshipper to such raptures of desire and abortion that mere words could not express the feelings, and motion was the natural outlet, however feel, for the pent-up emotions. So in the Molpe we find the primal expression of exaltation and worship that is present in all better poetry since...
Demarsico. The pent-up energies of the Fascist deputies were released in noisy bombardments when Fascist Deputy Demarsico arose to defend his chief, Benito. One by one he took the arguments of Signer Soleri and metaphorically broke them over his thighs. At each snap of the hapless Soleri indictments, the cries of the Fascisti grew more and more delirious. Came the time for paying tribute to the martyrs of Fascismo. Demarsico turned to Soleri, shouted: "They died smilingly, our 3,000 martyrs, to construct something permanent. Make no illusions for yourselves; they have indeed created something permanent; and their sacrifice...