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...major factors producing psychopathy is damage to the ego. He sees a loss of individuality and consequent damage to the ego in the 20th century's mass political movements, social and industrial giants, wars and economic upheavals. "From loss of identity has come insecurity, and this has bred the soul-destroying plague we know as mass psychopathy. Mass man is the psychopath par excellence...
Concludes Lindner: "This is the very soil in which mass manhood and psychopathy take root and grow. Our adolescents are but one step forward from us upon the road to mass manhood. Into them we have bred our fears and insecurities; upon them we have foisted our mistakes and misconceptions. They are imprisoned by the blunders and delusions of us, their predecessors, and like all prisoners they are mutineers in their hearts...
When Army visited New Haven some ten days ago, it broke several things: 1, the Elis' six game winning streak; 2, fullback Steve Ackerman's collarbone, and 3, it would seem, much of Yale's October bred confidence...
Decades ago, the spirit of the Inland Empire was colored by lack of irrigation and power, and by painful dependence on Eastern finance. The sense of a great future and a hard present bred within the region a restless, resentful spirit. From time to time, when Idaho's lead mines shut down, when grain prices fell and Washington's Big Bend wheat fields dried up, native brands of radicalism took hold. Nostrums like Populism were laced with occasional dynamitings; the Northwest was a pre-World War I citadel of the I.W.W. Those days are past, but the tradition...
Unwound in Technicolor flashbacks from the graveside of the heroine (Ava Gardner), the story has a few startlingly good lines and situations-and several embarrassingly bad ones. Ava is a slum-bred flamenco dancer in Madrid when a tyrannical millionaire turned moviemaker (Warren Stevens) shows up with his slavish pressagent (Edmond O'Brien) to look and maybe to buy. But Ava, no easy mark, will have none of it until the millionaire's cynical, broken-down director (Humphrey...