Word: rootes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bees & Flowers. Sex arouses the most curiosity about Summerhill. It is discussed freely and unemotionally. There is no specific sex instruction, but a child is given simple, straightforward answers to anything he asks about. Headmaster Neill is convinced that guilt connected with masturbation is at the root of most "antisocial" children's disturbances. Says Neill: "Free'dom in masturbation means glad, happy, eager children who are not much interested in masturbation. A masturbation Verbot means miserable, unhappy children, often prone to colds and epidemics, hating themselves and consequently hating others. I say that the happiness and cleverness...
...root of the trouble is the acute, continent-wide shortage of railroad freight cars. Lately there have been many more Canadian boxcars lagging in the U.S., awaiting return, than U.S. boxcars in Canada. But in gondolas, the open-top cars that at this season bring in Canada's winter coal supply, Canada currently owes the U.S. railroads about 14,800 cars...
Some 4,000 years ago, according to Japanese legend, the Buddhist priest Bodhidharma tried to stay awake for seven years. In the fifth year he got sleepy and cut off his eyelids. They took root. From the leaves of the bushes that grew, he made a brew that enabled him to finish his vigil. That's how tea began...
...Instead, we have a crazy situation whereby the U.S. must send food to Germany and coal to Italy. It's like trying to cure a sick woman by smearing a coat of make-up on her face. American aid must be directed to the root of Europe's trouble; equip European industry with the tools, and production will take care of itself...
...told that his mistress has decided to marry another man and have the baby. The setting is Paris in 1938. The characters are kleptomaniacs, homosexuals, heroin addicts, trollops, beachcombers of the Left Bank. They exchange mistresses, money, and a spiritual malaise which the author believes to be at the root of Europe's despair. Most of all, they share a common paralysis of will power in the face of impending disaster. Their lives, Sartre writes, "had ... a kind of insistent futility, a smell of dust and violets...