Word: schizoid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...called for sanctions against it (TIME, Aug. 29), Ike needed authorization to cut imports of Dominican sugar to the U.S. The Senate obligingly voted unrestricted authority to the President, but the House capriciously insisted that he would have to wait until the OAS members formally invoked sanctions. In a schizoid mood, neither House nor Senate would budge, and the new sugar bill died with the Congress. Ike was left with two possible recourses: 1) to invoke special emergency powers to permit him to cut off the sugar, or 2) to postpone any import of sugar whatsoever until New Year...
...curious thing is that although this moving picture is schizoid, most of its faces are worth attention. The problems -Preston's apart-are convincingly presented, and in general the solutions are not pat. Actress McGuire plays a limited part well, and Shirley Knight is outstandingly effective as the tormented daughter...
...book Dr. Kanner said: "There is no raid shelter from the verbal bombs that rain on contemporary parents. At every turn they run up against weird words and phrases which are apt to confuse and scare them no end: Oedipus complex, inferiority complex, maternal rejection, sibling rivalry, conditioned reflex, schizoid personality, repression, regression, aggression, blah-blah, blah-blah and more blah-blah." By contrast, Dr. Kanner exhorted: "Let us, contemporary mothers, together regain that common sense which is yours, which has been yours before you allowed yourselves to be intimidated by would-be omniscient totalitarians." A follower of the late...