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Attitude more than actual events determines how individuals respond to a financial setback. Joseph Cassius, a clinical psychologist from Memphis, catalogs people's reactions according to their personality type. A person whose early family life was marked by chaotic dislocations such as divorce, he says, will see a recession as a catastrophic event that could destroy him. Individuals with dependent personalities who lose their jobs may feel abandoned and show their frustration by, for instance, voting against the party in power. Those who usually feel in control of every situation may be especially stunned by unexpected economic setbacks. "The perfectionist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Is The Country in a Depression? | 12/3/1990 | See Source »

...Yadav: "Before, democracy was only for the powerful. But now real democracy has arrived." Observes a senior government economist: "The poor are organizing themselves as Muslims, as ((ethnic)) Jats, and so on. They want to get their share, to get on the bus to power. It may be chaotic, but Indian democracy is working...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India The Awesome Wrath of Rama | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

...archetypal forms. And its general legacy from '30s Picasso too: Pousette-Dart's Portrait of Pegeen, 1943 (the subject was the deeply neurotic teenage daughter of Peggy Guggenheim, his dealer), is heavily dependent on Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror. There is also a scary Expressionist insight to the chaotic congestion of Pegeen's head, staring at her reflection reduced to one bulging eye and blond Veronica Lake tresses. But Pousette-Dart was a stiff, poor draftsman, with the deficiencies of the self-taught, and this makes the early totemic paintings, with their biomorphic shapes playing hide-and-seek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Seeing The Far in the Near | 11/12/1990 | See Source »

That got Cambridge Mayor Alice K. Wolf into the fray. Fearing a chaotic mess, the mayor asked City Manager Robert W. Healy to investigate whether there would be enough police and maintenance personnel to keep the regatta under control...

Author: By Matthew J. Mcdonald, | Title: Cancel the Head? Well, Not This Year | 10/21/1990 | See Source »

...They were in hyperinflation--which isinflation of more than 50 percent per month--therewas a massive shortage of almost every commodity.There were price controls, black markets,shortages, bribery and long lines," he says. "Itwas a very chaotic and desperate situation lastsummer...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: In Poland, It's Sachs Versus Socialism | 10/10/1990 | See Source »

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