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...great earth mother" (representing the material aspects of nature), the "wise old man" (personification of the spiritual principle, i.e., God). If all mankind dreamed more or less alike in its legends and religious symbols, it was reasonable to suppose the existence of a universal unconscious mind-a vast reservoir of wisdom from which these dreams arose. Jung termed this reservoir the "collective unconscious," thereby adding a new dimension to the Freudian psyche. The goal of Jung's therapy, unlike that of Freud, lay in what he called "individuation," a process by which the archetypes and other disturbing elements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: PERSONALITY | 7/7/1952 | See Source »

Strange tastes recently noticed in the water at several University dining halls were due to an algae condition in the Cambridge reservoir. The contamination reached its height last week, but has reoccured periodically since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harmless Green Algae Tinges Local Waters | 4/9/1952 | See Source »

Cambridge Water Superintendent William H. McGinnes said that the condition in the reservoir was first noticed in February, just after a warm week. He said that the Department of Health investigated immediately, but found the algae not dangerous to health. They do, however, cause bad odors and tastes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harmless Green Algae Tinges Local Waters | 4/9/1952 | See Source »

Bronner's second argument was that these "subversives" could, at some predetermined hour, let deadly quantities of fluoride into the water. Shaw remarked, "It would be just as easy to drop a bottle of cyanide in the reservoir, in fact easier, for more people have access to it than the fluorine valve...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women's Club Attacks Fluoridation As Dangerous Plot by Subversives | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...Result. On the shores of Lake Overholser, Okla., after the public was invited to watch a team of seiners ridding the reservoir of undesirable fish, 20,000 Sunday motorists jammed all roads leading to the lake, prevented the fishermen from getting near the water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 3, 1952 | 3/3/1952 | See Source »

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