Word: phasing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...party leaders are saying in effect that Stalin, not Tukhachevsky, was the traitor. The stigma of betrayal has been transferred from the army to the party. The army is now formally absolved from blame for the loss of millions of lives and countless treasures in the first phase of the war. The party is maneuvering to avoid blame by holding the mad Stalin responsible, but there is still no certainty that it will be successful in doing...
Infant's first search for gratification is limited to release of hunger tension-oral phase. If there is no nipple handy, he puts thumb in mouth. Next comes satisfaction from defecation-anal phase. Third, pleasure from sensation in sexual parts-phallic phase. (Association of sexual gratification with reproduction-genital phase-does not come until sexual maturity.) Beginning about age two, the child's emotional attachment to mother leads to wishes to displace father-Oedipal feelings (the older, more rigid concept of an Oedipus complex is now frowned upon...
...lives in an evolving universe, says Ong, in which geological ages, over the course of some 5 billion years, follow "one after the other in a mysterious, but unmistakably patterned, sequence." In this evolution of the earth from "brute nature" toward more and more "homanization," technology is the latest phase. Thus any idea that technology is opposed to humanism is "unreal." On the contrary, technology "is a great and inspiring human creation." Instead of fighting technology, Christians should join it. "The cause of humanism is served by dealing with reality, not by denouncing...
...Sidney Farber, professor of Pathology, will direct one phase of the government program to test 2000 drugs against cancer, the Public Health Service announced yesterday...
...demand increased for more luxurious, better-feeling fabrics. Orders for silk organdy-lightweight yet stiff enough for full-skirted cocktail dresses-poured into Cohama's Tokyo office. Exports of organdy rose from 35,000 yds. in 1949 to 1,600,000 yds. in 1951. When the organdy phase faded, others replaced it: silk faille shipments went from 30,000 yds. in 1950 to 500,000 yds. in 1955; silk print shipments soared...