Word: restraining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the vexed and vexing period of adolescence is no exception. "Although the adolescent may rebel," Dr. Kenward said, "he feels much happier and more secure if someone helps to restrain his behavior. It can be comparatively painless if he has grown up with basic trust and a respect for wise authority...
Autumn after autumn, the dream has persisted, in alleys and wood lots, mansions and tenements: every American could rise by education. Ben Franklin nourished it with self-improvement primers. Jefferson gave it philosophical reasons. An unlettered people scrambled for skill and knowledge. "Your government will never be able to restrain a distressed and discontented majority,'' warned Britain's Lord Macaulay. "This opinion," retorted President-to-be James Garfield. "leaves out the great counterbalancing force of universal education/' The focus of a European town remained the cathedral; the focus of an American town became the high school...
...desire to bring peace to Cyprus before his expected selection next winter as President. Worried by Grivas' pronouncements, which seemed to many Cypriots the mischievous product of thwarted ambitions. Makarios last week sent his top aide, Bishop Anthimos, to Athens to plead with the old soldier to restrain himself. Sighed Makarios to a reporter: "For Cyprus the Cypriot problem is over. The problem now exists in Greece." So far, however, the bitter Grivas does not seem to have captured much public support in Greece...
...medical leaders joined last week in urging Americans to take an introspective look at their individual and collective psyches. At famed Saint Elizabeths Hospital in Washington. Health Secretary Flemming rang in national Mental Health Week by clanging a "mental health bell" forged from the shackles once used to restrain patients. The volunteer National Association for Mental Health and its branches staged open-hospital days across the country, persuaded thousands of outsiders to come see for themselves what it is like on the inside. And in Philadelphia, birthplace of U.S. psychiatry and (in 1844) of the American Psychiatric Association, more than...
Dredging the killers' pasts, Dr. Satten and his colleagues discovered that all had histories of being bad actors-getting into fist fights that would have ended fatally if others had not intervened, etc. At these times they displayed superhuman strength; it took seven men to restrain one who fought like this. Yet all were preoccupied with fears of being, or being considered, "sissies...