Word: toward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LONDON, Feb. 12--Britain, Greece and Turkey pushed toward a lasting peace in Cyprus with swift rounds of talks today aimed at bringing independence to that troubled British colony...
...chance. Shortly before World War II, Aline Bernstein, Wolfe's onetime mistress, the Mrs. Jack of the later novels, sold the manuscript of Look Homeward, Angel at a public auction, to raise funds for the relief of Jewish refugees (a bit of irony for Wolfe had an avowed tendency toward anti-Semitism.) The book was sold under the stipulation that it was to go to a university, and the buyer gave it to Houghton...
...quickest way in which I can convey a sense of what is lacking in the clubs is to ask you to perform the following imaginative feat.... Suppose that Club A announced for Tuesday evening a faculty-student discussion of American policy toward Red China; that club B announced for Wednesday evening a musical recital; that Club C announced for Friday night a panel discussion of the university's admission policy. . . . If you will simply suppose all this you will see at once the main thing which in my opinion is now lacking on Prospect Street. . . . In general the undergraduates' attitude...
What effect Wilson Lodge has had on the club system and on Bicker is hard to gauge. Its new popularity is surely an important development, both eliminating compulsion toward club membership and providing a relatively attractive recourse for Bicker's rejects. Part (but only part) of Wilson's growth may be traced to the announcement last spring of plans for a new Dormitory Quadrangle to replace Wilson Lodge. It will be a modern, Houselike set of structures, with dormitory space for 200 and eating and social facilities...
Although Freud developed the hotly debated Oedipus complex from his feelings toward his mother, Fromm believes that he concealed their intensity even from himself. And while discovery of the "wish to remain attached to Mother" was a notable event, Freud destroyed its value by restricting it to instinctual desires. In analytic terms: "His own attachment to Mother was the basis of his discovery, and his resistance to seeing his attachment was the basis for the limitation and distortion of this very discovery...