Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Humanitarian concern and the idealistic desire to dedicate oneself to the good of others are recurrent motifs in the prayers. But Pastor Hill reports that a new element has recently made its appearance-anxiety. "During the war and the subsequent conflict in Korea, the youngsters prayed for those in the armed services. But the war dangers seemed far away; the children themselves did not feel threatened. It is different now. The prayers they write today contain pleas for protection in the event of war, nuclear attack or other crisis ... By the time they are twelve, they have become active sharers...
...Union can play a valuable part in making him part of his class and the College. The Union, even for resident students, is the most unifying experience of most Freshmen's year. There is economic pressure, however, to eat at Dudley (where it is possible to feed oneself far more cheaply) or in the Square (where the food is usually better). But if commuting students were required to buy a year lunch ticket for the Union, this economic incentive would vanish, and they could eat with their classmates without penalizing themselves...
There are many motives and mechanisms. Most striking motive, albeit unconscious, is "the psychological equivalent of murder . . . an endeavor to destroy the other person (for which there is no legal penalty). Also common, says Dr. Searles, is the need to get rid of "threatening craziness in oneself," achieved by telling another member of the family, "You're crazy." Most powerful of all, thinks Dr. Searles, is the utterly unconscious need to drive somebody else crazy so that an unhealthy state of mutual dependence can continue despite anxieties and frustrations...
...largely dominated by returning veterans, many of them years older than he. "One had to in a sense work harder, because of the generation gap... And that I think was invaluable. One couldn't just get off a few flip epigrams and hope to make a reputation for oneself--one had to do some hard thinking...
Irresponsibility. For a while, Carl and Joan cling to each other in a sort of unprincipled camaraderie: up to a point, Carl shares her lazy indifference to consequences, her pretty-eyed irresponsibility toward everyone, including oneself. But in the end, he makes his break. Along the way, Author McLaughlin (A Short Wait Between Trains, The Side of the Angels) again and again pierces his story with small but sharply accurate insights-how a man feels when he pointlessly watches a girl on the street, the horribly impersonal service in a funeral parlor almost too antiseptic to admit the image, "dust...