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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...psychiatrists put it, with the parent of the same sex. In normal development a young boy wants to be substantially like his father, and things go wrong when a boy rejects his father as an ideal. If the father is a dominating, bullying type, the boy is likely to prefer, and tend to identify himself with, his mother's yielding tenderness. If father is a henpecked weakling, the boy will reject him and resolve to avoid his mistake of falling into the clutches of a dominating or shrewish woman. The possible variations are innumerable...
...delegates. In Asia, he said, "colonialism is a bigger issue then Communism-and white is the color of colonialism." Almost 99% of U.S. Protestant missionaries now serving overseas, said Dr. Thomas, are white men and women. "I asked the church leaders of mid-Java if they would prefer Negro or white workers, and their decision was unanimously against our present practice of sending almost exclusively white missionaries...
...novice who would prefer not to attempt the more challenging trails at first, this plan can be altered to include skiing lessons instead of tow fees. Some of the most experienced instructors in the country can be found in this area...
...Lowell even had chairs of different types sent out from Boston which he tried out himself to see and feel which kind seemed more comfortable. He also gathered together a group of representative students from the Student Council to find out whether they would prefer to have in the dining halls small tables, long tables, round tables, rectangular ones, or a mixture of the various types and sizes! Matters of detail as well as the general educational and social aims of the Houses received his close attention as the new Houses like Dunster, Eliot and Lowell were being planned...
...quick Western acceptance and a quick note to Moscow, so the outside world would not get the notion that this was the only reason for the Bermuda get-together. Early January in Berlin would be a good time and place, the Americans agreed. Bidault said France would prefer to hold it off for a while. At one point in the discussion, Dulles warned Eisenhower he was raising his voice, then stepped to the windows to see that no eavesdropping was possible...