Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surface. A good teacher does not avoid transference; but, unlike an orthodox psychoanalyst, he at once tries to dissolve it, by noticing it, by the play of reason, by turning it into actual liking or hostility. How else does he think a young person "matures"? One does not "wait for" maturity. Along the same lines, when he speaks of (sexual) "seduction," he is a very inexperienced young man if he doesn't know about the mutual reaching in such "seductions...
...fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of "nobody-ness"?then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait...
...attention was lavished on planning distractions for the Erhard eye and ear: a private piano recital by Texas' own Van Cliburn, a sing-along with a trio of Texas folk singers called the Wanderers Three, and a performance by a local comedian named "Cactus" Pryor. And lying in wait for the Erhard palate were piles of pungent deer-meat sausage, snowy peaks of hominy grits, pits full of barbecued beef, and a rich chocolaty cake topped with coconut-pecan frosting made from a recipe brought to Texas by Germans who settled in nearby Fredericksburg...
...more days or maybe weeks," Eddie went on. "They stamp their feet, and if they don't get what they want, the world must stop. They're acting like a couple of kids in a playpen. They've been in their playpen long enough. They can wait a few days...
...constitutionals, paced briskly along with members of the press in tow, covering the 1,200-meter distance from his villa to his favorite bar without even getting winded. Assuming a quick finish to the Fisher business, when would he become the fifth Mr. Taylor? "Probably about January 20." Why wait? "There will be a few days' delay arranging the wedding, and also for the sake of decorum-what little decorum is left...