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...complex lattices. They sat by the fire in the Château Fleur d'Eau and interpreted the world for each other through their distinctive mental grids--different societies, different interests, minds formed by different histories. Walter Lippmann wrote, "We are all captives of the pictures in our head--our belief that the world we experience is the world that really exists." Reagan explained America to Gorbachev. Gorbachev explained the Soviet Union to Reagan. Neither man was moved to defect as a result of the education. More useful than cross-cultural perspective was what each man learned about the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Closed Doors | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...archconservatives. He claimed that American think tanks, citing the Heritage Foundation in Washington and the Hoover Institution in California, were feeding Reagan plans "designed to break down the Soviet economy." Reagan replied with astonishment to Gorbachev's conspiracy theories. Indeed, he said, he had always operated on the belief that government fouls up anytime it tries to manipulate the economy. Gorbachev, the chief of a state-planned economy, did not seem either amused or persuaded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fencing at the Fireside Summit | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...shocking. Diagnoses were developed by majority vote on the level we would use to choose a restaurant. You feel like Italian, I feel like Chinese, so let's go to a cafeteria. Then it's typed into the computer. It may reflect on our naiveté, but it was our belief that there would be an attempt to look at things scientifically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Battling over Masochism | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...computer, but that's how a committee works. You put it on the screen so everybody can see it." He spoke in the aggrieved tones of a man who has just spent five hours bending over backward and is now being attacked anyway. Hanging in the air was the belief that masochism exists but henceforth no woman will ever be diagnosed as suffering from it because the women's movement would be disappointed. Some of the women even doubt that a masochistic personality exists. Garfinkel believes there "simply is no research" to prove it. Walker thinks the group should "junk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Battling over Masochism | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...renewed use of traditional architectural styles is a done deed, praised and damned but now mainly accommodated. A more significant traditionalist trend, however, may be the revival of the belief in appropriately expressive building types. A courthouse should not look like a Pizza Hut; a parking garage and a theater ought to be distinguishable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Of '85: Breaking Out of the Box | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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