Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italian national habit of dismissing all economic problems with a reference to Italy's population problem. Said Zellerbach, "Large population can be a challenge as well as a problem." If Italy's 1,800,000 unemployed and 2,000,000 underemployed could get work at normal wages, the nation's home market would be increased by at least...
...easy matter to decide just what is normal, and hence, what is a perversion (the authors prefer the word deviation). Virtually every sexual practice which is condemned as abnormal in modern Western civilization is, or has been, considered normal somewhere, at some time...
...London and Dr. Caprio have found that the deviations from what modern society considers normal are legion. Almost any common object or experience, they believe, can be tinged with sexual excitement for some individual. Prosecutors have long known that firebugs are often unbalanced and get sexual satisfaction from watching either the fire itself or the extinguishers. Even shoplifters, according to the Washington psychiatrists, are often sexually abnormal, and pilfer objects with some obscure sexual significance (e.g., women who steal fountain pens, men who take gloves...
...cork-lined, fumigated bedroom, wrote a mordant masterpiece about the decay of French society. Maurois heavily emphasizes the weaknesses in Proust's character-his dependence on his mother, his excessive need to be sure of the admiration of his friends, his failure to establish a normal love life, his toadying to decadent aristocrats. This Proust is a very sick man, but did his sickness dictate Remembrance of Things Past...
...over phonographs, and radio and TV sets. Maximum operation at other frequencies calls for longer aerials and more amperage than the University wiring Circuits supply. Under these circumstances, good "long calls" are few and far between. The ham must generally contest himself with, at best, mediocre contacts under normal weather conditions...