Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found positive identity. Thus, they would have been especially embarrassed by an inability to present a full slate of candidates to their fellow Republicans in the September primary. A lack of candidates would have been a sure sign that the vote-getting power of the Republican image is still slight...
...with the New York Philharmonic as part of its summer Promenades series. Singing fado in the rich expanse of Philharmonic Hall-with the audience sitting at café tables sipping champagne and munching Fritos-seemed as out of place as singing spirituals in a salon. But no matter. The slight, darkly beautiful Amalia created her own special atmosphere. She put on her black shawl and, backed by four guitars, filled the hall with her smoky voice, tossing her head back to sound the chilling, soulful plaint of the fado. It was gutsy, gripping singing, full of yearning and remorse...
...book's slight remaining plot teases the reader into wondering not "What will happen next?" but "What is really happening now?" What is happening is that Percy is using his plot as a witty excuse for exploring the wilder woes and wiles of Southern Negro servants, Northern liberal busybodies, professional religionists, disenchanted humanists ("Being geniuses of the orgasm is far more demanding than Calvinism"), and, most entertainingly of all, the subtle differences in outlook between the North and South...
Aggression into Love. Is there a way out of this dilemma? Lorenz finds it in an animal capacity called "redirected activity." In the case of the greylag goose, redirection works like this: the same movements the goose makes when it attacks an enemy it makes with only slight variation when it professes love for its lifelong mate. The movements are the same, the feeling is totally altered. What has intervened, in the author's opinion, is an instinctual process analogous to the one Freud calls sublimation. Animal rage has been sublimated into social feeling, aggression has been transformed into...
...active co-operation and support of the University. That means, among other things, money. And when this issue is raised, a University president must evaluate the need of a program and compare it with other needs that press upon him university has so many needs that may tend to slight all of them to some extent. But some programs are more important than others are and they serve a disproportionate share of the university's resources. The Kennedy Library may well be the chief last mark of President's Pusey's years in Harvard. It is a program that...