Word: threads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evolutionary theories of the family and the empirical sociology of urbanization are clear, well-written and illustrated with historical examples. But the chapter on the development of personality theory and the psychoanalytic controversies of the '30s and '40s is far less transparent to the uninitiated. Occasionally, Lasch loses the thread of his argument as set out in the early chapters; at times he fails to preserve the connection between intellectual history and social history. Too often, he seems to soar to unnecessarily abstract heights, to stray into foggy, anecdotal or theoretical discussions which have no apparent ties to the major...
From there, Leslie Greis, who had replaced Hewitt when the center injured her hand earlier in the half, took control of the game's offensive tempo, chipping in six more points. The first two resulted from a superb feed from Atinc that thread-the-neeedle of the MIT zone and left Greis alone for an easy...
...March 19 that Würzburg has been bombed, Goebbels laments: "So the last beautiful German city still intact has now gone. Thus we say a melancholy farewell to a past which will never return." He observes that "the fate of the Reich sometimes seems to hang by a thread," and speculates darkly that the Allies will treat Germany "like a Negro colony in Africa...
...films, does not realize when he carries a good thing too far. For example, he hardly passes up an opportunity to clown, and as a result, he often comes off as a buffoon. Most of the puns and cheap sight gags are of dubious comic value, and the fragile thread of humor which supports them eventually breaks when it is stretched to a ridiculous length. In one scene, the train Wilder is on jolts, and Wilder's sleeping wife is thrown to the seat opposite her and a male passenger takes her place. Wilder, who does not realize what...
...like a big needle on a thread just pulling people together," she said...