Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world we live in" should be taken from her white mother (Barrie) and her black stepfather (Bernie Hamilton) and given to her white father. A lengthy flashback recounts how a young blonde divorcee meets and marries a Negro fellow worker as climax to "an ordinary, everyday, uncomplicated relationship." Thus slighting the tough and painful realities of the problem posed, the film takes aim at the usual clay pigeons and sitting ducks. But except for one brutal police officer, the Midwestern town where these events take place is seemingly untouched by ordinary everyday race prejudice. In a cliché scene that...
Omnipotent Leaders. Lee's problem, as extrapolated by Ezra G. Benedict Fox from Freud's "postulate of the defense mechanism of identification in the relationship between the group and the group leader," was one that is common to all leaders "exercising a type of paternalism with the group." The group conceives of the leader as omnipotent, and the leader in turn "embraces the gratifying role of omnipotence" that every parent cherishes. Under some particularly trying circumstance, this illusion of omnipotence may "sweep the leader along to his destruction." The trying circumstance in Lee's case was that...
...Moore's first experiment, a teacher sitting next to the child repeated the names of the letters as the child typed them at random. Soon the child was able to understand the relationship between the letters on the typewriter keys and their spoken names. Theoretically, simple words and short sentences were to follow. But teachers are human, and some of the children quickly learned how to drive them mad. One young boy, drunk with power, hit the asterisk key on his machine 75 times before the ill-starred teacher, who had been repeating "asterisk, asterisk, asterisk," finally cried uncle...
...them, as for many of the martyrs, the old denominational hostilities crumpled before the reality of their common fate and common cause. "We are like brothers," Lange said of their relationship. And when Stellbrink stepped up to the guillotine, he told his Catholic companions: "Auf Wiedersehen im Himmel." So close was their relationship that one Catholic priest has proposed that all four be presented to Rome for canonization...
...close relationship between Gordon and Johnson developed within 24 hours of the Kennedy assassination, when the matter of finishing up the fiscal 1965 budget was pressing. Johnson later remarked that he and Gordon spent "37 days and nights' work" wrapping up the $98 billion budget. Gordon, by nature a more tightfisted director than his predecessor, David Bell, had no trouble executing the slashes Johnson wanted and has been steadily cutting back ever since. Working for a President obviously fascinated by the political potential of budgeteering, he is being asked to perform tasks not ordinarily given a Budget Director...