Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these legal troubles, Hoffa still retains a firm grip on the steering wheel of his huge Teamsters Union. Only two weeks ago, he won a decisive victory over insurgent Teamsters in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland and Delaware. A National Labor Relations Board election gave Teamsters in the four-state region a choice between Hoffa's union and a rival union set up by the rebels. Although the insurgents were actively supported by the A.F.L.-C.I.O., the Teamsters voted by a two-to-one margin to stick with Hoffa...
...person with a strongly developed, intrusive subliminal region, James argues, will have a proclivity for hallucinations, obsessive ideas, and automatic actions that seem unaccountable by ordinary experience. As a simple illustration, he cites the phenomenon of post-hypnotic suggestion. In addition, he refers to the work of Freud, Janet, and Prince on hysteria. Though James explicity credits this research with shedding "a wholly new light upon our natural constitution," he refuses to employ it to "explain away" conversion...
...primary wide-awake consciousness throws open our senses to the touch of things material," he writes, "so it is logically conceivable that if there be higher spiritual agencies that can directly touch us, the psychological condition of their doing so might be our possession of a subconscious region which alone should yield access to them. The hubbub of the waking life might close a door which in the dreamy Subliminal might remain ajar or open...
...account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness disregarded.... They may determine attitudes though they cannot furnish formulas, and open a region though they fail to give a map.... Looking back on my own experience, they all converge towards a kind of insight to which I cannot help ascribing some metaphysical significance. The keynote of it is invariably a reconciliation. It is as if the opposites of the world, whose contradictoriness and conflict make all our difficulties and troubles, were melted into unity...
...leaders of the Association have emphasized that he membership clause stipulates a "peculiar relation" to a geographical region, Africa. They define Africans as those peoples who did not come to Africa through invasions, including some Semitic peoples, but mostly members of the Negro race. The leaders of the Association say that a European whose ancestors invaded is still not African because his life in Africa is a result of their violence; they thus exclude Afrikaaners, who consider themselves Europeans...