Word: self
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navaho "Singer" treatment and related ritualistic healings in the cultures of the Saulteaux, Yurok, and Guatemalan Indians have certain points in common. Especially significant are the common traits of curing through an emotional experience, with the assumption that the cause of the disturbance lies beyond the patient's conscious self, whether in repressed libido or evil spirits...
...truth, there is very little to say about the difference in "character" among the dorms, even less than among the Harvard Houses. A lengthy blurb on each dorm is bound to deteriorate into a few private jokes or a questionable attempt to attach cliches to each one--Briggs: "cool, self-assured sophistication;" Eliot: "talkative;" Holmes: "musical, spirited, homey;" Whitman: "slightly mad potpourri...
...semi-retirement and self-exile in Switzerland, Comedian Charlie Chaplin, 70 last month, let it be known that he and wife Oona, 34, expect their seventh child in November...
...more compact, smoother-operating products every year. Thanks to miniaturization, the 1959 models of Admiral, Carrier and others are 50% to 60% smaller than in 1956. General Electric claims that one of its 1959 bedroom models is virtually noiseless. Westinghouse, Fedders, Emerson are putting out install-it-your-self "portable" models. York is packaging parts needed for installation with the cooler to reduce high and widely fluctuating costs of putting it in. As optional equipment. Philco is offering an "Ionitron" (price: $50) to charge the air with negative ions, which, says Philco after a five-year hospital study, snuff...
...crutches, Anne could really walk. But as she advanced to college (St. Paul's Luther Junior College and the University of Minnesota), Anne found it harder to win acceptance than it had been among young children, and harder still to get the training she wanted to make her self-supporting as a teacher...