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...back in his freshman year during the Strike, remained for three subsequent years at this institution which he so percipiently recognized as a heartless manufacturer of oppressors (I was not so fortunate to be enlightened early--a senior at the time of the Strike, it proved terribly difficult to unburden myself of the delusion inculcated by four years that my education was worth something). Perhaps he selflessly devoted his last three years to missionary work among those naive and misguided souls hurtling headlong into the depraved trap of intellectual achievement. He should in such a case be applauded, since...
...Sparta. In the Faulknerian courthouse, gun-toting black parents waited impatiently while the school board debated whether or not to open the schools on time. Eventually, the board decided to delay-and the blacks, bitter though they were, decided not to resort to gunplay. What they did do was unburden to Range the extent of their frustration-and hope...
...Therapists. To determine the rewards of friendship, Wright asked 60 male and female university undergraduates to define what they understood by a "close friend" and a "friend." In defining close friends, Wright found, "there was an emphasis upon self-disclosure -i.e., upon someone to whom it is possible to unburden one's most secret thoughts." Sixty percent of the males and 82% of the females drew this distinction. Wright interprets it to mean that each human carefully nominates a few companions "in the more intimate role of unofficial therapist. Perhaps friends are more important for mental health than...
...unobtainable. His counsel is to live with gentle self-forgetfulness and honest circumspection, to expose vanity but not extinguish passion, to live with hope, resigned to obscurity, to live for others by getting the mind off the mind. He felt that apathy and certainty alike were vain. Men must unburden the day by communing with their hearts...
...dancers a malevolent presence on stage. Orestes' final exorcism of remorse-his cowing of the "flies" as the symbol of fate-turned out to be a vivid pied-piper spectacle. As the "liberator" of Argos he had to put the rats (flies) on his own trail, burdening himself to unburden others...