Word: referents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some time ago I thought it would be interesting to know if historians would refer to this decade as the "sicksties" or the "sexties...
Apart his cruelty, man is also unique among the primates for his slow rate of development, which keeps him relatively helpless for almost a quarter of his life. According to Storr, the human infant cannot respond adequately to its environment, resulting in impotent rage and fear. Analysts refer to this earliest stage of emotional childhood as the paranoid-schizoid position...
Port Neches is a bleak Gulf Coast industrial town that is also intensely religious. On Sundays, most of its 10,000 inhabitants troop loyally to one or another of the town's 35 churches; some have so much fundamentalist fear of the Lord that they respectfully refer to Jesus as "Mr. Christ." The shared excitement over the phenomenon has brought blacks and whites together in a proximity unusual for Port Neches; but the two races sometimes differ on what they see. One white farmer, who claims that he has taken some 25 photographs showing images of "the Christ Child...
...Ridiculous! I refer to "Changing Morality: The Two Americas" and especially to the comparison "A doctor who refuses a house call to someone who is seriously ill is worse than a homosexual." I mean, what is the point? That doctors are better than homosexuals? What'if the doctor himself is a homosexual (take a TIME-Harris Poll on that one)? I mean to say the questions were so worded, the comparisons so ridiculous, that it is no wonder intelligent people are questioning the polls-and no wonder they've proved wrong time and time again...
Irishmen sometimes refer to the Atlantic Ocean as a lake of tears. Because so many of them have crossed it to the U.S., the Irish are seldom far from the thoughts of Americans. This is particularly true right now. For months, something not unlike civil war has been simmering in Ulster. This is the week of Eire's national elections. If that were not enough, June 16 is Bloomsday. It is a good time to reflect on the ways and woes of the Irish, and TIME asked Novelist Wilfrid Sheed to do so. Sheed is only part Irish...