Word: vastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the basic plan of regular examinations, a series of baroque innovations is possible. Pollack says that the health centers may develop a data bank with vast amounts of data on thousands of patients. "From this data base," he says, 'we can get a reading of the tests end eventually use test results as a predictive medium...
City Hall also has character. On the outside there are those funny windows. Inside, there is a vast open room with a wonderful feeling of space and light which encourages those transcendant emotions you feel when looking out over tiny farms and woods from a mountain top. Those of you who have ever been in the old city hall know how depressing dim halls and dark wood paneling...
...that has changed. As the Paris negotiations have raised hopes, however often dashed, for peace in Viet Nam, Americans have become obsessed with the prospect of diverting to domestic programs much of the $30 billion a year that the war has been costing. The U.S. faces vast and pressing needs in the cities, the schools, the hospitals and the nation's very air and water. Many of its legislators and citizens thus see the ABM as a thief that would snatch away billions of dollars sorely needed for domestic use. The likely cost for the specific ABM program already begun...
Their nudity was an expression of a desire to be free from the constraints which are imposed to so vast an extent on people's lives by our society--a society that is raising a privileged but not-necessarily-happy few, oppressing many of its members, stifling creativity to a very great degree, and driving itself insanely towards self-destruction and annihilation. I was appalled at how difficult most of the people in the room were finding it to transcend their own persons and the uniqueness of the situation--at how hard it was for them to enter into...
Some of the charges put to Freudianism are thoroughly familiar: that it is an expensive, timeconsuming, highly selective form of therapy, which admits only those patients who suffer from the relatively mild ailments that analysis has a plausible chance of curing. To therapists concerned with the vast volume of mental illness that needs to be treated, write Psychologists Hans H. Strupp and Allen E. Bergin in a study for the National Institute of Mental Health, "a little, but significant, change for a lot of people is seen as preferable to protracted efforts to produce large-scale changes...