Word: repressions
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...used as an aphrodisiac, but Indian monks take it to repress physical desires. Caribbean laborers use it by day as an "energizer," but by night as a sedative. Marijuana is a paradox...
...line, artists apparently decided that beauty and expressiveness in a work are old hat, and by masquerading behind secure parodies they can get away with a minimum of thought and effort. O.K., let's admit the world is crazy. But does that mean our art and culture should repress creativity and optimism and thereby give in to absurdity? Steinberg has proved to me that he and the other moderns are bored...
...house of ill repute, resembles a giant sewer. We are down low, beneath ponderous vaults, looking into endless black caverns. But those same vaults function as the huge window frames in Angelo looks, the heavy frame vaults serve as a reminder of the seamy underside he struggles to repress...
...would kill her.' " Another type is the passive, dependent man who has sought out a strong wife to shield him from worldly problems. Barbara Star, a professor of social work at the University of Southern California, finds that battered spouses are usually people who feel overwhelmed by life, repress all strong feelings and tend to blame themselves for whatever goes wrong. Most, she explains, are convinced that fighting back is useless...
...cultivating cash crops, such as coffee, cotton and bananas. Most importantly, America must not forget the conclusion that then Congressman Edward Koch of New York reached last summer after the approval of military aid to the regime: "If we support Somoza by providing him with U.S. arms to repress his own people, then we become oppressors...