Word: penumbra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hormone shots so that he would grow tall enough to dance with girls who had already sprouted. (The shots were denied him, but hi time he reached a height of 5' 10^".) Kathy, Jerry Brown's younger sister, watched sympathetically as her brother was raised in the penumbra of his father...
...legislation as the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958. The 1,000 days of the Kennedy Administration were days of frustration for Vice President Johnson, who had been nominated primarily to balance the ticket and win Southern votes, and from that penumbra he emerged, President by accident, as a whirlwind of creative energy unleashed...
...Munich at the Olympic Stadium memorial service for the slain Israeli athletes. "I am sure the public will agree that we cannot allow a handful of terrorists to destroy this nucleus of international cooperation and good will." Thus, the second week of the XX Olympiad proceeded under a grim penumbra cast not only by the brutal murders, but by sloppy officiating, errant decisions by Brundage's International Olympic Committee-and by the insensitivity of Brundage himself. In his brief speech at the service, the outgoing I.O.C. president tastelessly equated the slayings with what he called the other "savage attack...
There is something wistful about the anachronism that in a time when agonizingly delicate international politics is played under a penumbra of nuclear megadeath, those of simple faith can still dream evangelical dreams of a simpler time, seeing themselves standing in the wind-washed prow of a Yankee clipper, Bible in hand, carrying the Word to the heathen Chinese...
This sounds like barbaric, inmates-of-Charenton therapy, but it is the key to the clinic's theory of "reality confrontation." The psychiatrists actually live with the patients in ordinary family dwellings. They assault the patients psychically-and sometimes physically-in order to penetrate their penumbra of fear. A doctor wrestles violently with a suicidal 14-year-old boy to try to make him accept the reality of contact. When a psychotic young woman refuses to respond, the same doctor sits on her stomach and shouts: "You're making the least progress of anyone here!" Then he soothes...