Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pasadena, Calif., school official began testifying for the defense that Sirhan's IQ was 89 (a score of 90-110 is the norm), their client exploded again. While Judge Walker hastily sequestered the jury, Sirhan addressed the bench. "I, at this time, sir," he declared, "wish to withdraw my original plea of not guilty and submit the plea of guilty on all counts...
...departure. Word out of London had it that De Gaulle, who has steadfastly opposed British entry into the Common Market, had proposed that Britain join France, West Germany and Italy in a four-power European economic directorate that would replace the Common Market. His reported price: that Britain withdraw from NATO, as France in effect has already done. London and Paris started a shouting match over whether or not De Gaulle had actually made such a proposal?and the curious case caused a new outbreak of Anglo-French hostility (see box following page). True or false?or, more likely...
...last few months while undergoing what might be called a crisis of self-discovery. Both of them felt two books were extremely relevant to their crises: Hesse's Demian and Laing's Politics of Experience. Like the hero of Hesse's Demian both boys felt a need to withdraw from the definitions and demands of the academic and business worlds, to explore and cultivate a world inside them, "to try to live," in Hesse's words, "in accord with the promptings which came from the true self." They sensed an inner reality which was as consistent and self-validating...
...there is little evidence suggesting that old-young marriages are any more fatal than conventional alliances. But many experts, such as Sociologist James Peterson, are pessimistic about the whole business. "As the man ages," says Peterson, "he tends to withdraw, while she is active and vigorous and still wants to go. If he dies, even though they might have been happy, there is the problem of premature widowhood, especially if there were no children." U.C.L.A. Psychiatrist Ralph Greenson agrees: "Either the man does not live long, or after a while they find that they do not have much in common...
...Board of Publications, and meetings with Lewis were held all year long, with the B-School monotonously repeating that BAD was competitive. Lewis challenged HarBus to name specific advertisers that concerned them, and they cited two, both of whom then wrote letters that they would not withdraw their ad from HarBus it BAD were allowed on campus. The Business School administration lost the letters before reading them. "The Business School was financially irrelevant to us," Lewis said, "but this was so absurd that it got our goat." And this fall, when they attempted to deliver again, the complaint came with...