Word: wahl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last thing James Bryant Conant wanted at Harvard was a school of journalism. A chemist at heart, Conant wrote his speeches in a manner designed to keep a reporter from finding any headlines in it. Consequently, the windfall bequest left to Harvard in 1936 by Agnes Wahl Nieman, widow of the founder of The Milwaukee Journal, came as a complete surprise to Harvard's President...
Nicholas A. Wahl, a research fellow in West European Studies, predicted that the present majority, composed of Gaullists and Independents, would retain power...
Psychologists like U.C.L.A.'s Charles Wahl favor the hard view. All revolutionaries, Wahl says, have had fathers...
...stood at one or the other of two extremes: "strict, cruel and unjust or weak, vacillating, ineffective or absent altogether." The son grows up hating the father, and learning to take on the cop, capitalism and the Establishment. He can, says Wahl, even murder without guilt. Many revolutionaries suffer from searing feelings of inadequacy, Wahl adds, and therefore have a greater-than-ordinary need for notoriety. Supporting this view, De Paul University Psychologist Thomas Milburn speaks of the "Icarus complex" among many terrorists?"even though you fall to earth, you've tried one spectacular thing...