Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, the 10-year collaboration between Freud and Carl Gustav Jung broke off abruptly in 1914, with profound consequences for the discipline they helped create. There would henceforth be Freudians and Jungians, connected chiefly by mutual animosities. Why did a warm, fruitful cooperation end in an icy schism? In A Most Dangerous Method (Knopf; $30), John Kerr, a clinical psychologist who has seen new diaries, letters and journals, argues that the growing philosophical disputes between Freud and Jung were exacerbated by a cat-and-mouse game of sexual suspicion and blackmail. Freud believed an ex-patient of Jung's named...
With novels, side trips are okay. "A novel for me was a wonderful feeling. It was like getting into a warm bath and being able to spread out and loll around in these lovely paragraphs and pages of description." Fair warning: a warm, lolling author does not mean that readers and characters will escape Proulx's lash. She assesses the tone of her Accordion Crimes as "black and scarlet...
...Crimson wanted to box, the Big Red wanted to slug it out, and at the end, both teams looked like buckets of warm spit...
Arguing against a $500 grant to the HarvardOutdoor Program to help defray the costs of a skitrip for Harvard students and underprivilegedchildren, Reyes said that factors the councilconsidered in deciding grants should not include"warm fuzzies and good feelings...
...think perhaps fish and hamsters might be allowed by this new Yard policy, but honestly, that might not be adequate. Hamsters are warm-blooded, but tend have difficulty fetching your slippers. Fish are reliable--they never seem to sleep--but they're not the most affectionate companions...