Word: reject
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent Harvard sit-in, for instance, was widely noted in press accounts. Like other prominent men in this situation, Seamans refuses to discuss the matter. Equally upset are the parents of some first-generation college students, including poor Negroes, who are baffled when their children seem to reject the grail - a middle-class education...
Nabokov's novels, prefaces and discourses drip with scathing references to Freud. His basic objection to Freudian theories is that they slight the creative imagination by putting it in a sexual straitjacket and by insisting that dreams and images are determined mechanistically. "I reject completely the vulgar, shabby, fundamentally medieval world of Freud," he writes, "with its crankish quest for sexual symbols (something like searching for Baconian acrostics in Shakespeare's works) and its bitter little embryos spying from their natural nooks upon the love life of their parents." Nabokov may yet get his wish to see Shakespeare in heaven...
...looked more like a reject from the cast of Oliver! than the star of Sweet Charity, but Shirley MacLaine insisted that "there is more to life than worrying about clothes." In London briefly to promote Charity, Shirley offered a few more upbeat views that roundly belied her traditional image as Hollywood's wispy, well-meaning waif. On politics: "Politics is not relevant to me any more. What matters is social revolution in the West." On pot: "I smoke pot, but I'm not addicted to it. I'm not addicted to anything except being alive...
Against Usury. In part, this innocence of money matters is due to Islam's ancient strictures against usury. Although these prohibitions have not interfered with the prosperity of Lebanese bankers or Arab oil sheiks, many Moslems still feel duty-bound to refuse interest payments; they reject the idea of borrowing money and refrain from other business practices that might violate the precepts of the Koran. At the heart of such caution is a conviction that one of a Moslem's basic duties in life is not to compete with his fellow man but to prepare for his entry...
...panacea for mental illness. It does not benefit the patient whose emotional problems, however upsetting, are not overwhelming -the so-called normal neurotic who either applies for long-term therapy, if he can afford it, or else manages to live with his problems. Many therapists flatly reject it-and so do some patients. Says Detroit's Danto: "Often you have to talk your way in. They don't see you as the Ajax knight coming in to zap them clean...