Word: hang-up
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...girls of Lesley College, that little island within the huge Harvard ocean, suffer from a hang-up. It's a strange condition best described by some of its manifestations. They include...
Unfortunately, the Harvard men who see this behavior do not realize that it is a result of their own sneering, not a cause for it. And the worst of it is that the Harvard men who cause this hang-up really don't know what they are talking about...
...pronouncing the novel of action dead and buried, Alberto Moravia has been forced to prove his point by writing novels of inaction. This one is not only inactive; it is stillborn. Francesco Merighi, a journalist with sex problems (Moravia's hang-up), tires of his wife and examines the possibility of a relationship with his stepdaughter (step-incest?). Nothing happens, though, because that is not really what Merighi wants: "She represented the nullity which I would be able to love simply because it was nullity." The book is in the form of a diary that Merighi keeps...
...several years as ways of attracting either commitment or attention.) Only about one-third as many people filled out Civil Rights Coordinating Committee interest cards at registration this year as did last year. A large part of the explanation no doubt lies in what one member calls "the Vietnam hang-up", and it is just in the area of controversial foreign policy that Young Dems is most constrained, most lacking in consensus, and least able to make meaningful policy statements. "What are we supposed to try to be?" one member has demanded defensively. "A junior SDS? A more moderate...
...college student today who faces the draft and has any moral qualms about the war is going to have a major psychological hang-up," he said. For this reason, he said, there should be "a whole gamut of responses possible" for the potential draftee. He suggested that young men could "share the burden of the war, but not its purposes" by joining the Peace Corps or Vista "until there is a better war to fight," or by volunteering their services to a U.N. standing army...