Word: parents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life so sterile that such experience can be summarized in an adjective ... I am a free man, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order. I am also a liberal, a conservative, a Texan, a taxpayer, a rancher, a businessman, a consumer, a parent, a voter, and not as young [50] as I used to be nor as old as I expect to be-and I am all these things in no fixed order...
...Pennsylvania, expert on behavior disorders of children, author, whose 1946 study Their Mothers' Sons examined the U.S.'s "mom-archie" society, attributed much mental disease to "momism"; of lung cancer; in Philadelphia. In Strecker's lexicon, a "Mom" was not a mother. "Mom is a maternal parent who fails to prepare her offspring emotionally for living a productive adult life on an adult social plane. A Mom does not untie the emotional apron string," and the result is an immature son or daughter. What is maturity? "It is the ability to see a job through, to give...
...Happy Home Corporation," Parent Boone expects his kids to be friendly friends-"sincere, honest, loyal, trustworthy, good company, consistently thoughtful and dependable." He hopes they remember that "You cannot get to heaven on your parents' ticket," and that money is only "a symbol of gratitude" for services rendered. "If you're not getting enough," says Teen-Age Philosopher Boone, "try giving a little more...
...pilots, who no longer needed to fear that the greater speed and capacity of the jets would bring pilot layoffs or demotions. It did not satisfy the six American pilots who make up the negotiating team, all of them lower-paid junior pilots. When the representative of the parent A.L.P.A. urged the team to accept a settlement, they ordered him to leave the negotiating talks. Just 14 minutes before the strike deadline, they brought in a dozen more demands, including such fringes as private rooms for all pilots during layovers. The talks collapsed. Grumbled one pilot: "Who ever heard...
...sharpest illustration of the difference between the existential and earlier approaches, Dr. May took the well-worn Oedipus situation and recapped it. To Freud, Oedipus meant that a child has a sexual attraction to the parent of the opposite sex; as a result, the child experiences guilt, fear of the other parent, and (in boys) castration anxiety. In Freudian and descendent schools in the U.S., the patient is helped to accept the idea that such transitory feelings are normal and natural, so he is relieved of his guilt and anxiety...