Word: sociale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes) Tunisian ambassador. When the ambassador had joined the throng in the East Room, the President, in white tie and tails, and Mamie, in a scarlet net gown set off by a heart-shaped diamond pendant, came down to greet the 78 guests and launch the most important diplomatic social function of the year...
...Dwight Eisenhower's Washington, high society is not what it used to be. For one thing, the President has cut down on big social doings since his heart attack and stroke (only five White House dinners this season). For another, the Washington social set, symbolized by such flamboyant party givers as Gwen Cafritz and Perle Mesta, seems to wilt in a Republican administration. The social glamour has now been taken over by the diplomats, who see parties principally as an excellent means of scouting international business. So crowded are the big diplomatic functions that it is sometimes easier...
...party-loving diplomats in Washington, none is so indefatigable as Nicaragua's Ambassador Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa, dean of the diplomatic corps (miniatures of 33 medals, one sash), who in his social seniority sometimes attends a luncheon, three receptions and a dinner all in one day, so far this year has been seen at 513 such functions. Busy, portly Sevilla-Sacasa scarcely has time to throw a party...
...like-minded therapists, Freud's view of "natural man," moved by instinctual forces, is an essential element of the truth, but still inadequate. The view of man as a social creature, advanced by Sullivan and Karen Horney, adds a second dimension-but still not enough. For a full understanding, and hence for successful psychotherapy, they hold that man must be seen in his entirety, in the light of his self-consciousness, his imagination, his creativity, and his unique ability to see himself as a finite creature, poised on the brink of nothingness-as Pascal put it, "here rather than...
...endowed professorships in the humanities, two in the natural sciences and two in the social sciences...