Word: seem
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Running Away. After 18 months, most of the 30 war widows who have participated in the group sessions seem to agree, "Thank God for the whole thing," says Johanna Book, a striking blonde of 32. "I had been running away from my problems " The key to the group's therapeutic effect is the shift it encourages from widow to single woman. The process can take six months or more, and involves a gradual emancipation from the first shock and later depression, self-recrimination, self-pity and feeling of helplessness. With the group serving as a sounding board, the widows...
Noble Savages. Until recently, anthropology accepted the myopic judgment of Philosopher Thomas Hobbes that life in a state of nature was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." Primitive peoples were construed as somewhat stupid living fossils, stalled in the path of progress. Today, though, experts seem more inclined to endorse Jean Jacques Rousseau's vision of the noble savage living in a Golden Age. And they go so far as to suggest that present civilization, despite its vast artistic and material advances, is in some ways no real improvement on the past. "It is still an open question whether...
...tell of man's earliest history. Writes University of Chicago Anthropologist Sol Tax: "We should study the reasons for the persistence of these peoples in light of all the conditions militating against their persistence. I think that the case of the North American Indians is especially significant. They seem to be waiting for us to go away...
Philip noted that the majority of heavy users seem to have an excessive share of the narcissism generally equated with adolescents. In fact, their pot parties represent a sort of collective, community narcissism: "They congregate in groups to smoke pot, but as soon as they 'turn on' and are 'stoned,' each is alone, absorbed with himself." While they talk about freedom of expression and new avenues of selfdiscovery, Philip found, in most of the cases he has seen at Columbia University, "the student appears to be driven by motivations beyond his conscious awareness and control...
...Symbol. Gucci spares neither time nor money to turn out the products that more and more people want in an increasingly affluent world. Even shopgirls and clerks seem willing to spend beyond their means to own the same kind of luggage or clothes as Jackie or Frankie or Princess Lee. The Gucci shoe, a chunky loafer with a metal snaffle across the instep and a price tag from $31 to $49, has become one of those subtleties of dress that are supposed to separate the Main Line from the wrong side of the tracks. Enriched by demand for such symbols...