Word: withdrawnness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possible path for the highway would run through an industrial area in the Eastern part of the City. The DPW is expected to select the Brookline-Elm St. route--one which has aroused strong opposition in Cambridge, but which the DPW actually approved last spring. This approval was subsequently withdrawn in the fall when Gov. John A. Volpe ordered a review of the project...
Noon Wine is close in feeling to Peckinpah's prizewinning movie, Ride the High Country. A strange, withdrawn, harmonica-playing Swede (Per Oscarsson) arrives at the small Texas spread owned by an ignorant farmer named Thompson (Jason Robards Jr.). The Swede signs on as a handyman, and in the course of three years not only tunes up the farm operations to perfect pitch but slides, in his remote way, into the heart of the family...
...tense, withdrawn subjects said precious little about their LSD experience except to complain of pain, weakness, dizziness and feelings of apprehension. They did not dredge up recollections of infancy or talk about their emotional problems. They scarcely moved, even when they were lying in obviously uncomfortable positions. When asked about changes in the appearance of the room or the view from the window, they usually reported none...
...Linton and Psychologist Jack D. Hain had originally feared that the withdrawn, introverted patients might become disorganized and panic under the drug; they were surprised to find that their rigid control-which may be a part of their emotional illness-proved enough to sustain them through an experience that they disliked intensely. Only the subjects who might normally be classed as sensation seekers reacted like thrilled acidheads...
...Lebanon was plunged into economic crisis when its huge Intra Bank shut down last month, and the situation is steadily getting worse. For three days all other Lebanese-owned banks were closed; when they reopened, $35 million was withdrawn almost immediately. Virtually none of it has been redeposited in Lebanese banks. Since Intra held 38% of the country's deposits, its continued shutdown has meant a disabling shortage of cash. Lebanese restaurants report up to a 50% falloff in business; in the gambling casinos, the dealers are playing blackjack with one another. Worse, merchants have now lost their credit...