Word: constructive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Existentialism is not used directly as a philosophy in helping patients, says May, but serves as a foundation for psychologists to construct a broader base for their science and thus to understand man more intimately. In his theoretical view, this means introducing a new dimension-ontology. But to the patient undergoing treatment, one of the biggest differences is in the therapist's attitude to anxiety and guilt. In older, conventional psychology and psychiatry, says May, there was no place for really fundamental anxiety-about such basic issues as being and non-being-and there was no way to treat...
...space sailer. Once launched in the usual way to an orbit around the earth, the satellite would sprout a circular sail of thin plastic coated with shiny aluminum. If the satellite is spinning, the sail would spread itself by centrifugal force. Another method would be to construct a sail with inflatable tubes connected by fragile membranes on the model of an insect's wing. At the proper moment, plastic foam would be injected into the hollow tubes, distending them and spreading the sail. Later, the foam would harden to act as supporting ribs...
When Governor Bowles talks about what should be done to construct an intelligent approach to world affairs, the words "dynamic" and "creative" are used with much frequency. Such words tend to be bandied about with too much ease today, so much so that they have lost almost all meaning. But Bowles is not proposing verbal solutions built on cliches. He is not playing the Madison Avenue word game, but engaging in an old American activity of saying what you mean...
...Kremlin's NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV : THE American voters have shown they desire peace. They have condemned the Dulles policy of positions of strength, which is supported by Mr. Eisenhower. We hope the Democrats will change the foreign policy of the U.S. away from the brink of war. They should construct their policy with due regard for the existence of the Socialist camp. We want peaceful coexistence...
...federal grant of $154,544 has been awarded to the Forsyth School for Dental Hygiene, Herbert Shaw, director of Medical Information, announced yesterday. The money will be used to help construct a two-story research building...