Word: toward
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University did take the first steps toward assuaging some of the hard feelings last week, when Graduate School of Design officials announced that they would consider giving tenants on Sumner St., scheduled to be evicted on June 1, more time to move...
...Committee is responsible for gathering funds for professorships, establishing an office of women's studies, and encouraging the development of courses. Present efforts have been directed toward the incorporation of women's studies into the Core curriculum next year, Tillinghast said...
Hansel and Gretel are abandoned by their father and stepmother in a forest. Snow White is pursued by an assassin sent by her stepmother, the Queen, and then by the Queen herself. Fairy tales are, in fact, full of parents and stepparents with a murderous bent toward kids. So why do children continue to read them? Manhattan Psychoanalyst Dorothy Bloch, 66, believes she knows why: the small child has an "almost built-in" fear of infanticide, which these hoary horror stories help expunge...
...turn to potentially damaging reveries, including ones about changes in sexual role. In effect, the child says: "Maybe Daddy would really love me if I were a boy instead of a girl," or vice versa. Unless they are resolved, explains Bloch, such conflicts may be the first step toward homosexuality...
...aught toward the general...