Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voices are raised more often or more indignantly over the plight of Arab refugees in the Middle East than those of the Soviet Union and its satellites. Last week, during a special refugee relief fund-raising conference at the U.N., 22 nations agreed to contribute some $28 million to UNRWA, on whom 900,000 Arab refugees are almost totally dependent for food, clothing and shelter. The U.S. pledged $21.8 million, Britain $5.8 million. Among smaller contributors was Yugoslavia, which pledged $40,000. Total contributions from the Soviet Union and its satellites: zero...
OFFER FREUD 25,000 DOLLARS OR ANYTHING HE NAME COME CHICAGO PSYCHOANALYZE LEOPOLD AND LOEB. For the same purpose, Hearst also offered Freud "any sum he cared to name" and also "was prepared to charter a special liner so that Freud could travel quite undisturbed by other company." Freud's refusals were chilling...
...pains to explain the acceptance of Moses and of his one God in terms of the "father figure." Comments Author Jones: "Freud had always asserted the psychological truth in religion, i.e., that it was concerned with real unconscious conflicts present in everyone. In this book he laid special stress on the historical truth in religion, i.e., that it was concerned with the unconscious memory of actual happenings." The intriguing point (not acknowledged by Loyalist Jones) about Freud's religious theorizing: it is reminiscent of the "archetypes" in Jung's psychology, which is roundly denounced by most Freudians...
...repairman has long since won a special niche in American folklore. Depending on the circumstances, he ranks midway between the riverboat cardsharp and the village idiot, part freebooting buccaneer and part plain boob; or he appears, armed with screwdriver and flashlight, as a latter-day St. George riding heroically against the dragons that infest the nation's drain traps and fuse boxes. In commuter cars, at cocktail parties and women's clubs, he is the center of a game of "Can you top this?"-an endless recital of domestic triumphs and defeats. The plumber who forgets his tools...
...Special Situation: You call at the house and find the customer in her negligee...