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...happy or what is sacred to them," Legman says. "They joke only about what frightens or disturbs them." He agrees with Freud that "it is not our hatred of our enemies that harms us: it is our hatred for the people we really love that destroys us." By giving vent to this ambivalence, unacceptable at the level of consciousness, the dirty joke plays a small but necessary part in preserving man's emotional balance...
...could be located in a wooded area some 20 miles north east of Atlanta. The kidnapers had hidden her well. Barbara Jans had been placed in a coffinlike box which had then been buried under 18 inches of earth. Her tomb had been equipped with food, water, two flexible vent tubes which protruded above ground, a fan, and a small light which failed some hours before she was found. She had spent an estimated 80 hours underground. Still wearing the red-and-white nightgown that she had on when she was abducted, Barbara Jane was nevertheless reported in good condition...
...issue. Unless he is elected, he said last week, the number of crimes will double in the next four years. But in Boston, where he canceled an open meeting because of the fear of hecklers, he deplored the "hate" vote. He said: "Simply to allow the American people to vent that hatred as they vote for Nixon-to do so because they are voting against somebody else-that isn't enough. We don't want to win it that...
...estimated 20,000 people turned out for the Wallace rally at the Common, but it soon became evident that a very large part of the crowd--probably more than half--had come to vent their disapproval of Wallace and his campaign. As the candidate began to speak, he was greeted by loud chants of "Peace!" and "Go home!" and by dozens of anti-Wallace signs...
Sioux Indians, by contrast, are known to give vent to their emotions with re ative ease. Among them, cancer is virtually nonexistent...