Word: repressing
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...writing Paradise Lost, the blind and defeated rebel arrives near Plymouth in 1660. As he proceeds to plant an intolerant city-state on American soil, this Milton sneers at the memory of More, calling him an idolater who had had his head chopped off. And yet Milton must repress his delight in Utopia, More's 1516 tract about a perversely perfect new world. He heaps murderous scorn on neighboring English Catholics, although he is surreptitiously enthralled by their pageantry. He is Satan, and tragically, he knows...
Flexible work arrangements and the ability to take extra time off are attractive lures in the current economy. Sometimes they give employees the chance to develop the idealistic side that earlier generations felt constrained to repress when they put on a business suit and tie. Bonnie Weisner, 34, a senior consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Fort Lee, N.J., took advantage of the firm's flextime policy because she wanted to pursue an outside interest--becoming an emergency medical technician with a volunteer ambulance corps. In September she took a 40% pay cut and went from a 55-hr. workweek...
This movie was not even given the benefit of bitchiness that The Craft had going for it. Where Neve Campbell and company reveled in their magic, Bullock tries to repress it, downplaying her powers in order to fit in. Kidman does her best to portray the bad girl who uses her magic for fun, but such a sickly sweet Bullock offsets her. Kidman walks into Bullock's attempts to create a normal life in smalltown New England, saying things like, "Hang on to your husbands, ladies." But we end up feeling sorry for Kidman instead of rejoicing in her power...
...important thing," says TV's Homer Simpson to his daughter, "is for your mother to repress what happened, push it deep down inside her so she'll never annoy us again." Though he may not grasp all the nuances, Homer turns out to be just another disciple of Sigmund Freud. That, at least, is one of the revelations to be found in "Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture," the largest ever exhibition on the founder of modern psychology, set to open next week at the Library of Congress in Washington. Along with some 200 TV and film clips that document Freud...
...There was such irony that we were there to protest some man who represents the worst in repressing free speech," she said. "In a very slight but significant way, Harvard also felt the need to repress our freedom of speech...