Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...official count, 70% of the Lebanese refugees were back in the villages and towns from which they had fled during the Israeli invasion two months ago. "UNIFIL has given us back our home life," says Ahmed Majzoub, a shopkeeper in the city of Tyre. "Now we don't wake up wondering how much chance we will have to live through...
...first shock of emotion after Moro's death, former Italian President Giuseppe Saragat lamented that "alongside the body of Moro lies the body of the first Italian republic." That judgment was excessive, but it reflected a common fear that in the wake of the Moro tragedy, Italy might be in for a bout of vengeful political overreaction, skirmishing between the far right and the fringe left, or vigilante justice. "We will all pay for this act, the high and the low," said Pietro Campagna, a Rome accountant...
While he does branch out in new directions--different research methods and a broader focus--Levinson is also clearly following in the wake of the psychoanalytic school of thought. Drawing on the work and concepts of Freud, Jung, Erikson and William James, among others, he attempts to generalize their ideas to include other times of life besides childhood and other crises and reorientations besides the Oedipal dilemma. Fortunately, Levinson also is more favorable to sociological sorts of questions and researches than are his more theoretical psychoanalytic counterparts, and therefore he tends to live less in a world of mental models...
...There are those-and Robert Strauss is one of them-who wake up each morning in the full and firm conviction that inflation is a greater threat to the pursuit of happiness than the Red Army. Jimmy Carter made Strauss his generalissimo of the counterattack, a deadly serious business that Strauss manages to infuse with his durable humor and energy...
...discussed work habits, and he [Brezhnev] told me he did not use a Dictaphone. I recalled that Churchill had told me that he much preferred to dictate to a pretty young woman. Brezhnev and the others agreed, and Brezhnev jokingly added, "Besides, a secretary is particularly useful when you wake up at night and want to write down a note." They all laughed uproariously...