Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIME's Essay "Guarding the Door" [June 2] dealt well with the issue of a continued welcome to immigrants until the last paragraph. There Lance Morrow suggested that the rational lines must be drawn as to whom we can accept.
"See, we're not so close-minded." However, Freudian analysis, unlike Pavlov's behaviorist ideas, has never taken hold in the Soviet Union, although the Georgian Academy of Sciences recently sponsored a symposium on the concept of the unconscious. In the U.S.S.R., talk therapy or "rational psychotherapy," is...
In 1970, the hotel mananger tells Jack, the winter caretaker, a drunk named Delbert Grady, succumbed to "cabin fever" and axed his wife and two daughters into little bits and stacked them in a corner smiles; he's a rational person who's been on the wagon for five months...
KUBRICK'S FAVORITE THEME of man seeking his own death weaves its way subtly through this nasty plot. Jack Torrance is a man who has always allowed his drinking and his temper to overwhelm his reason, a man who sets his own roadblocks and then tries to run them in...
There are rational, realistic lines to be drawn - and promises inside the house that need to be redeemed. -Lance Morrow