Word: phobias
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Khrushchev said. The crucial event had been the murder (1934) of Leningrad Party Boss Sergei Kirov. A drastic change had then come over Stalin-a "phobia" about treachery-and he had never been the same afterward. Khrushchev went on to deliver a devastating indictment of what the congress in open session had heard described as Stalin's "20 years of dictatorship and lies." At the 18th Congress, Khrushchev had shouted, "Long live the towering genius of all humanity . . . our beloved Comrade Stalin!" But now he charged...
...clear from the testimony at the recent Hughes perjury trial in New York City. But the trial revealed that responsible and otherwise rational men were willing to attribute both powers and motives to the junior senator from Wisconsin that might make Satan himself a little envious. Nor was the phobia confined to the self-appointed guardians of the liberal tradition. At the height of McCarthy's influence in 1954, articulate members of both parties seemed convinced that the Republic had not been in greater danger since the colors came down at Fort Sumter...
Dream of a Hayride. The practical differences between the methods of Freud and Jung show up clearly in the case of a successful businessman who went to a Jungian st for help. At 51 he had developed a phobia against train or air trips, expressed in uncontrollable anxiety and attacks of giddiness...
After reading your May 24 article about blood banks and that ''the A.M.A. and state medical societies claim that free blood-for any patients other than charity cases-is 'socialism,' " I was bothered by the following question: Would the socialism phobia of the American Medical Association cause them to condemn the Good Samaritan as a dastardly socialist because he did not determine whether the wounded man he helped was a man of means before giving freely...
...School Phobia. In most ages and in many communities, oldsters would have prescribed a dose of strap oil for Fred and let it go at that. But Boston has become a hub for child psychiatry, and at the center Fred and his mother found sympathetic help. His trouble was common enough: "school phobia," the psychiatrists and social workers called it. But they well knew that while the complaint may be common, the cause is different in each case...