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...group members alike try to help each member analyze, and change, his "life script" -the blueprint that, according to T.A., a child unconsciously draws up to shape his whole life. Bad scripts may include self-defeating "games" such as "Kick Me," a gambit of the self-pitying, and "Blemish," the ploy of people who compensate for inferiority feelings by pointing out the failings of others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: T.A.: Doing OK | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

...Crimson's only blemish was when sophomore ninth men Dick Cashim dropped a second round game to Stuart Brown, 10-15, but Cashin fought back to win in four games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetmen Top Williams, 9-0; Crimson Tallies Third Shutout | 12/11/1972 | See Source »

...from these tendencies: he attributed them, along with everything else that he hated and feared, to the Jews. The Jew became a symbol of sex, disease, his perversion-and even the tormenting guilt that perversion caused him. Conscience, he ranted, was "dirty and degrading," "a Jewish invention," and "a blemish like circumcision." For Hitler, Langer wrote, getting rid of Jews means getting rid of his own unconscious inner difficulties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: The Two Hitlers | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

...stock in Gulf Oil: "A series of escalatory acts of protest and civil disobedience against the Federal government, and the support of anti-war candidates, are the only valid actions against the war" (April 22). Such an analysis suggests that Harvard's ownership of Gulf stock is the sole blemish on a pure university...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GETTING BACK AT CRIMSON POLITICS | 5/10/1972 | See Source »

...highly favorable ratings. In fact, it was the latter. Thomas had carved a distinguished career in posts such as Tangier, Port-au-Prince and Mexico City, where he became a specialist in Mexican radical politics. Indeed, he had high marks from his superiors and colleagues alike; the explicit blemish on his record was an observation by a Mexico City superior that Thomas did not exercise proper "control" over his secretary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATE DEPARTMENT: Undiplomatic Reforms | 11/15/1971 | See Source »

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