Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Revolt by Half. All of Kafka's anxieties were crystallized in his relationship to his stolid and conventional middle-class father, who exerted "the bewildering effect that all tyrants have whose might is founded not on reason, but on their own person." The elder Kafka thrust all his massive sarcasm and scorn on his son in order to turn him into a successful businessman. Had he merely rebelled and broken from his father, Kafka might have gained endurance and maturity. His tragedy was that he could neither completely acquiesce nor completely rebel...
...booming market, General Motors decided to sell the public its 29.1% interest (1,000,061 shares) in North American Aviation, Inc. The sale, to be made soon, is in line with G.M.'s policy to get out of companies with which it has no "direct business relationship." (It recently unloaded an 18.9% common stock interest in Bendix Aviation Corp. and 344,000 shares of Greyhound Corp.) To make the separation complete, North American President James Howard ("Dutch") Kindelberger was moved up to replace Henry Michael Hogan, a G.M. vice president, as chairman of North American's board...
...A.M.A. insists that all medical prepayment plans should be controlled by medical men (i.e., medical associations), to preserve the traditional patient-doctor relationship (including, say critics, the right of well-established physicians to charge as much as their consciences allow...
...Washington, in hopes of building a hemispheric trade system based on a newly industrialized U.S. For all the oratory, nothing much happened until World War II turned the system into a virtual Good Neighbors' alliance. It had been Bogotá's job to make the wartime relationship permanent...
...Jaeger) is a very exhaustive, and very exhausting, study of a dipsomaniac. It reveals Ellen Croy, a Manhattan newspaper columnist (Elisabeth Bergner), as a driven soul, harrowed by something in her life which she can neither exorcise nor explain. The play follows her step by step, relationship by relationship-boss (Anthony Ross), husband (Millard Mitchell), old friend (John Carradine)-down into the pit. Then it slowly drags her back into the light...