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...desire to express pent-up feelings impels the individual to seek out confidants. The fear of talking makes him less likely to talk. The result is not a cessation of confidences, but rather the development of techniques of screening and assessing people...
...Miss Lucy affair at Tuscaloosa, Mississippi's Till murder case, and the Montgomery bus boycott all illustrate the pent-up emotion in the South which comes to the surface periodically. Similarly, the March Declaration of Constitutional Principles issued by 19 Senators and 77 Representatives, all from the South, illustrates the new determination and the new organization of the whites: "we regard the decision of the Supreme Court in the school cases as clear abuse of judicial power . . . This unwarranted exercise of power by the court, contrary to the Constitution, is creating chaos and confusion in the states primarily affected...
Reported TIME'S Correspondent Flora Lewis from Warsaw last week: "At the center of the new movement are Polish intellectuals, either Communists or sympathizers, most of them fairly young. Behind them are amorphous groups of youngsters, university students and veterans of the underground war against the Nazis, whose pent-up resentment needed only a pinhole through which to escape." Last week the pinhole threatened to become a full-sized blowhole as letters poured into newspapers from agonized young Poles describing how they now had "no foundations for believing anything." Typical was a moving letter from an 18-year...
Besides generating 90 million kilowatts to light the houses that will dot the new green fields, the dams will divert the pent-up waters through some 900 miles of new canals and ditches to irrigate an estimated 150,000 acres of barren southern plains around the capital city of Cagliari (pop. 100,000). The 100,000 villagers now living in the area may see their present $10-an-acre annual yield multiply eightfold, and the whole level of Sardinian farmers' life should rise to levels undreamed of in the old days when most scratched out a lean living...
...until 1943 that Burchfield began to find his way home again. One day, while mounting work from his Ohio days, Burchfield suddenly decided to use his early sketches as a starting point, expand them in his old lyric style. The attempt, he wrote, released "a long-pent-up subconscious yearning to do fanciful things, and once started, it seemed to sweep onward like a flooded stream; there was no stopping it." An example of Burchfield's new-found freedom is Summer Afternoon (opposite), started as a sketch in 1917 and completed as a watercolor in 1948. The finished scene...