Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...followed by 4,500,000 from Korea, have gone back into civilian life with hardly a ripple. They have, in fact, become the main stream, in many ways changing the course of U.S. life itself. Though only one in ten ever traded fire with the enemy, most grew to understand men and machines, brought back technical and supervisory proficiency that encouraged and staffed the postwar technological revolution-from TV repair shop to nuclear lab, from farm to Ford Motor Co. They coupled a broadened outlook with a conservative, down-to-earth manner that is reflected in the nation...
...only to have them revile him because he refused them the crucial Ministries of War, Foreign Affairs and Interior. Finally, one cold day in January 1946, the general called in his Cabinet and announced: "You espoused the quarrels of your various parties. It is not this way that I understand things ... I have therefore resolved to abandon office . . . My resolution is not subject to discussion." As De Gaulle walked away, Communist Boss Maurice Thorez broke the stupefied silence. "This departure does not lack grandeur." he said...
...sideline to her own profitable biological filmflam, tangle-maned Cinemactress Brigitte Bardot agreed to join Producer Raoul Levy in an undertaking of pith and moment: a series of educational movies designed to help the West "understand" the backward nations of Asia and Africa. To the regret of those piqued by the prospect of Bardot among the Zulus, Filmaker Levy decreed that swivel-hipped Brigitte's contribution would be limited: cash, but no carriage...
Existentialism is not used directly as a philosophy in helping patients, says May, but serves as a foundation for psychologists to construct a broader base for their science and thus to understand man more intimately. In his theoretical view, this means introducing a new dimension-ontology. But to the patient undergoing treatment, one of the biggest differences is in the therapist's attitude to anxiety and guilt. In older, conventional psychology and psychiatry, says May, there was no place for really fundamental anxiety-about such basic issues as being and non-being-and there was no way to treat...
Even the answer will leave a further mystery, Dr. Lovell admits. A universe that is still being created and that had no beginning is as hard to understand as one that "began" with a primeval atom. Creation, all at once or bit by bit, seems equally hard for scientific theory to handle. "Any cosmology," Dr. Lovell says, "must eventually move over into metaphysics...