Word: wishfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson erroneously suggested in Saturday's issue that the resignation of Yale Provost William Nordhaus was connected to his prior refusal to raise teaching assistants' salaries at the school. Nordhaus left his post citing a wish to return to teaching and research. The Crimson regrets the error...
...easy to see why. Freud's theories of dreams as wish fulfillments, of infant sexuality and Oedipal rage, had the power of revelation. They could not (and still cannot) be proved by laboratory experiment, but their palpable rightness can be sensed in mythology, legend and archaeology. Not surprisingly, Freud's famous office at Berggasse 19 was filled with antiquities from Egypt and classical Greece...
...apparently the man who knew so much about the mechanisms of denial in others had little influence over his own defenses. Rather than seek the opinion of a leading specialist, he selected a rhinologist of whom he had a low opinion. Was this an example of the celebrated "death wish," or perhaps just another instance of his need to be the boss? Macht nichts. The nose doctor operated and botched the job. Freud was left hemorrhaging on a cot in a small room that he shared with a retarded dwarf. The fellow summoned a nurse, though it is unlikely that...
...Jimmy Swaggart took the podium outside his World Ministry headquarters in Baton Rouge, La., last week, the Pentecostal preacher seemed serene. The 13-member executive presbytery of the Assemblies of God had just voted unanimously to defrock him. The televangelist responded by announcing his resignation from the church. "I wish it were possible to erase the ledger and start over again," said Swaggart. "But of course...
Merrill Lynch said in a statement: "We accept Larry Speakes' resignation with regret. Larry has made a signficant contribution to our firm during his time here, and we wish him well in every regard...