Word: repression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...histories of secret sex behavior have been made to appear not as thoughts injected by the authors and their supporters, but as undeniable truths derived from the figures of the survey, Zimmerman explained. "These opinions will give huge prestige to the idea that it is useless and needless to repress...
...better to let children swear than to repress this enthusiasm," to give them freedom to bite, scratch, break furniture, tear up books, attend classes only when they have nothing else to do, is more than asinine. It is vicious...
...Neill's belief that it is better to let children swear than to repress this enthusiasm; he finds that it presently wears itself out. It is the same, he feels, with other repressions. At Summerhill, the worst behaved children are always the newcomers, because, of course, they have been most repressed. New pupils often work out their repressed hate of their elders by biting, scratching, swearing interminably and "being generally anti-social." Says Mrs. Neill: "A small boy will sometimes walk in here, fix me with a glare and say, 'You stupid bitch.' But it doesn...
...Argentina itself, Evita's tour was the talk of every town. Whether they considered her God's gift to the working class or a devil's advocate against the established order, the citizens of Argentina, who are Argentine first and partisan second, could not repress their pride in the First Lady's spectacular accomplishments...
...expect a better world when the people of a democracy just sit back and try to repress their anxiety ? The classic joys and sorrows are puny today; the laments of the poets are ridiculous. Men cannot be concerned with the age-old struggle for personal improvement when whole nations of men are face to face with destruction...