Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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By the Twenties Jung's and Freud's theories of the subconscious had pretty well destroyed the rational structure of the world and opened the way for the literary experimenters to take an inordinate interest in dreams and innovations in the use of language. Much of the description of dreams...
"Irrational fear of strangers is a characteristic shared by a majority of the English," says Gorer. "In those portions of Asia and Africa . . . governed by England many of the native elites . . . were granted formal equality, but practically never social equality, typified in most areas by . . . social clubs. This exclusion appears...