Word: represser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conclusion: the memory function and coping function of REM sleep are linked. In both cases, the mind must deal with something it has not been prepared to face, and dream sleep makes it possible to consolidate the new material and make it part of oneself. "We know people generally repress the implications of situations for which they are not prepared," says Pearlman. "The situations usually appear in dreams the next time they sleep and there can be a resolution of the problem." Though the functions of sleep are far from being well understood, it is hardly just "rest...
...million women into pants explain his abrupt flight into a world of rustling taffeta? Over the past ten years, says Saint Laurent, he had refined his line to the limit and finally felt bored with its simplicity. "I had arrived at a certain purity. This had forced me to repress my fantasy, and I needed a big burst." Besides, Yves considers himself the last truly creative designer around. "A collection is always a reaction to something," he observes. "I was fed up with opening magazines and seeing clothes that I thought were mine but had in fact been done...
...Literature and Social Theory," Marcus draws out the connection between a certain style of narration and the presence of a functionalist, organicist social theory in George Eliot's fiction. By making this connection, Marcus was able to uncover the roots of both devices in a need to repress consciousness of social and sexual conflict, an insight which carries over to similar social theories in our own time, and was also able to resolve a misunderstood plot in one of her stories...
...There has been a conspiracy to repress and kill outstanding black leaders. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's murderers may not have been brought to trial," he said...
What will be the fate of the Basque people now that Franco is no longer head of the Spanish government? The importance of the Basque country to the Spanish economy is undeniable. Bilbao is the "Pittsburgh of Spain"--and the government's long struggle to repress the separatist movement can be expected to continue. However, the tension created by the presence of thirty-thousand paramilitary police in the north has not succeeded in discouraging separatist sentiment but rather has served to fan the flames of disenchantment with the present regime even among the most conservative factions of the Basque leadership...