Word: expending
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Psychotherapy has never been easily available to the aged. Since it demands so much time and effort, it is considered better to expend it on those who have a long life ahead. There is also the still-powerful influence of Freud. If one's behavior is believed to be programmed in the first years of life, one cannot hope to change that program substantially during old age. (Freud, who contributed to ageism, was also its victim. At 81, discussing "the many free hours with which my dwindling analytical practice has presented me," he added: "It is understandable that patients...
...they can scarcely force the Nixon government to resign and face general elections. U.S. politics are designed for the slow boil, not the blow-up. Political organizing (which, for simplicity, we may define as canvassing) feeds on election momentum. Organizing now requires a format like general elections to expend itself successfully...
DEVOTEES live according to four basic rules. They do not gamble, drink, engage in "illicit" sex, or cat meat. They live communally in Krishna temples, and feed themselves on sweets and spices whose recipes are taken from Vedic texts. They do as little as possible to expend themselves in physical self-flattery...