Word: normalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McCarthy, a gambler by instinct, gives no sign of doubt. He still lives like a burning roman candle; in times of stress or excitement he goes without sleep or food, drinks steadily for days on end without a tremor of unsteadiness. Even in normal period he often awakens, apparently fresh, after only a few hours of sleep, tosses off vodka and tomato juice (a combination which he believes does not taint the breath), reads leases or studies maps and impatiently awaits the new dawn...
Approved Outlet. Murdock saw five advantages in encouraging the young folks (with "social control") to let their glands be their guides: 1) less guilt, hence less psychoneurosis; 2) an approved outlet for sexual vigor when it is at its height; 3) establishment of normal heterosexual habits; 4) understanding of the role of sex-"Relief from sexual frustration is a very inadequate motive for marriage"; 5) prevention of marriage between sexual incompatibles...
...Under normal conditions, the Norwegians could outjump most of the rest of the world on one leg. In the first half of the two-part Nordic combined event (jumping and cross-country), they went about proving it. Norway took the first five places. The best mark: a formful, 223-ft. flight by thick-set Simon Slaattvik, who, back home, runs a locomotive on the Norwegian state railways. His jumps gave Slaattvik a good lead in the Nordic, but he still had the rugged, 18-kilometer (11.2-mile) cross-country trek ahead of him. The man he knew he would have...
...they continue to endure?' " Sobel and his associates found that a five-layer cushion of psychological defenses had protected the old sergeants-and presumably all soldiers who survived long stretches of combat in good mental health -from caving in. As the layers were peeled away, normal combat anxiety eventually turned into psychoneurosis and the old sergeant became a casualty: ¶ "Distant ideals"-a reliance on such intangibles as "the four freedoms," democracy, and the desire for "keeping the enemy out of the United States"-were the first to dissolve...
...normal course of events, Harvard should not lose to the Navy swimming team when the two schools go at it at 3:45 p.m. today in the Annapolis pool. Such a thing has happened only once since swimming coach Hal Ulen came to Cambridge 21 years...