Word: rigidities
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...those who had never liked Perón, the grievances intensified after he overwhelmingly won a second term as President in 1951. Concern rose over his failure to press for agrarian reform, his purging of liberals and personal opponents from the courts and universities, his clamping of rigid censorship on the press, his throttling-through firing, jailing and other persecution-of all dissent. Perón angered the Roman Catholic Church by ending religious instruction in the schools, initiating a divorce law and taking steps to legalize bordellos. In addition, reports circulated about Perón keeping a 14-year...
...dinner table about the various fuck-ups in my private life: about being paralyzed with fear when a beautiful sailor tried to seduce me; about trying, bravely in the now or never spirit, to throw away my virginity one night, and waiting with eyes clenched and a rigid back, only to find that he was impotent; about having a Persona hallucination (where the faces merge upon the screen) with a best girl friend; about my family's bankruptcy. And fairly soon I heard that I was crazy. And I figured I was safe. Better crazy than cruel...
...novel its vitality: any detail about commerce, labor, manufacturing, cooking, clothing and above all, "physical sensations." To her an artist's "power of observation was but a low part of his equipment." She unfortunately limited her own work by filtering priceless powers of observation through a kind of rigid moral nostalgia...
...critics, Karl Menninger stands accused, with his late brother Will as accessory, of having put U.S. psychiatry into a too rigid Freudian framework. To his admirers, Dr. Karl has done more than any other man to strike the shackles of puritanism from the American mind. Says Harvard Research Psychiatrist Robert Coles, whose mother read Menninger's The Human Mind to him as a child: "Karl Menninger has an earthy sense of what is happening to people. In his work there is an encounter between American intuitive psychological wisdom and the European spirit of psychoanalysis, which he made part...
...extreme clarity. It dispells any aura of mystery surrounding her subjects that the human eye with its weakness and sympathies allowed to build up. The struggles and anguish these people suffered awed Arbus but she never forsook the objectivity of the lens. She maintained her own perhaps too rigid standards of dealing with reality...