Word: penumbra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still new enough for its accuracy to be hotly debated. Packard quotes one practitioner of the penumbra art as saying: "It is about as far advanced as public-opinion polling was in the early '30s." But because it is subtler, and specifically because it deals with the unconscious, MR is probably far more influential than Gallup polling, and potentially more sinister. Psychologist Dichter offers a smooth line in defense: "Persuasion is education. Ideally people should never be influenced, but the fact is they are constantly influenced by parents, teachers, etc. . . . Creative discontent is wholesome; only when the goal...
...capital, Petrograd, where at every hand "one feels the proximity of the great wilderness of the Russian north-silent, somber, infinitely patient." Lenin and Trotsky were emerging as the main figures on that somber scene. These agile clever, ruthless and dedicated men-Stalin was still a poisonous penumbra on the horizon of history-were theoretically bent on directing Russia as an ally of the U.S. and the Anglo-French alliance against imperial Germany and Austria. The problem of the U.S. was to keep Russia in the war, and so block the movement of Germany's Eastern divisions...
...moon will enter the outer light shadow, called the penumbra, today at 3:40 p.m. and will reach the dark shadow or umbra at 4:45 p.m. The moon will be totally eclipsed from 6:05 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. and by 9:55 p.m. it will be out of the shadow area and again be completely visible...
...down to talk with, Krock reported, was "a serene President," with "undiminished confidence in the triumph of humanity's better nature and the progress of his own efforts-to achieve abiding peace ... He sits in the center of the troubled and frightened world . . . But the penumbra of doubt and fear in which the American nation pursues its greatest and most perilous adventure . . . stops short of him. Visitors find him undaunted and sure that, whether in his time or thereafter, a way will be discovered to preserve the world from destruction...