Word: relationships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What they saw was a laboriously reverent folk story of a people held in ritualistic bondage, governed in every phase of relationship by shibboleths, superstition, fear. Produced in Poland with native players as passionately sincere as if their own souls were involved. The Dybbuk presents a painstaking picture of the weary search for eternal peace by a people for whom the earth holds little, affords an insight into the absurd involvements that are the accretions of simple faith...
...careful, sympathetic biography, Katharine Anthony's Louisa May Alcott points the contrast between father and daughter, draws a subtle picture of the relationship within the strange Alcott family, but is principally memorable for the light it throws on U. S. culture before and after the Civil War. Viewing Louisa Alcott as a writer of great native powers, and Little Women as a work of genuine social and literary influence, Miss Anthony with gentle strokes traces Louisa Alcott's progress from a high-spirited tomboy to a hardworking old maid. The impression of a frustrated and unhappy life...
...Papez singled out four bodies in the region of the diencephalon, with their numerous nerve connections, and postulated for them a new relationship. "Taken as a whole," he said, "this ensemble of structures is proposed as representing theoretically the anatomic basis of emotions." The four, and their functions according to Dr. Papez...
...general as Metternich's spy. She was so powerful that it was said Austria had two ambassadors in London, the official one and Dorothea. Dorothea and Metternich so wangled state affairs that they were able to meet on three occasions, but when Metternich remarried in 1827 their relationship ("already injured by differences of opinion on Near Eastern politics") was broken...
...embarrassed with frequency and difficulty of urination. "Naturally such a condition affects any husband's marital life. That's easy to understand. And he approaches any treatment for it reluctantly because he thinks the doctor's instruments will, in effect, wreck any chance for its [marital relationship's] survival. That is not true. In the majority of cases, any potency and libido which had existed are more than likely to return. . . . Don't let ignorance and fear cloud the golden hours of your Indian summer...