Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been buzzing that if Norman Mailer won a National Book Award this year, he would turn it down in a gesture of defiance to the Establishment. But when Mailer was named winner in arts and letters for The Armies of the Night, he accepted. Not for him the self-denial of Jean-Paul Sartre, who refused a Nobel prize in 1964. "Sartre said he did not want people to refer to him as Sartre the Nobel prizewinner, but just as Sartre," Mailer recalled. "The fact is, the bourgeois call him Sartre the perverted existentialist, so if he had taken...
...some reason, changed her mind and went back home. There, in the presence of several neighbors, who by now had gathered around Mr. Muldrow's body, Mahotah fired a sixth shot. Foreman won an acquittal by convincing the jury that the first five shots had been fired in self-defense and that the sixth was 1) the result of some sort of nervous reaction, and 2) had missed...
...year. Beyond its practical effects on the country's interior, Projeto Rondón is also reconciling many Brazilian students with their government, despite its dictatorial tendencies. For one thing, both sides now have a common purpose that rises above political passions. For another, the participants gain immense self-confidence, plus a knowledge of their country that few could acquire on their own. Sums up Oswaldo Deleuze Raymundo, a young Rondónist from Rio de Janeiro: "The young are proving that they want a dialogue to resolve the problems of Brazil. Dedicated students do not have time...
...intuitiva," and often had horoscopes cast for his patients. The idea was not to predict their futures but to call attention to elements that might or might not lie in their personalities. A horoscope showing excessive fatherlove and tendencies toward sadism, he realized, could be used to provoke talk, self-analysis and perhaps insight. "Today," wrote Jung, "rising out of the social deeps, astrology knocks at the doors of the universities, from which it was banished some 300 years...
Positive: Determined, practical, kindhearted Negative: Materialistic, pigheaded, self-indulgent Career: Builder, producer