Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weighed his options, he stayed in continual touch with Move through emissaries. The mayor said repeated efforts to negotiate an agreement failed. Actually, according to Bob Owens, a crisis- intervention worker, unsophisticated Move members are not really equipped to negotiate. Says Owens: "They don't really even understand the concept of negotiation. Their attitude was that of a child: we make our demands, and we stand on them." All hope of agreement ended Saturday when Move Spokesman Jerry Ford Africa sent the mayor an ominous message: "We are ready for you. Come...
...founder of TA, Psychiatrist Eric Berne, presented the Parent-Adult-Child in Games People Play (1964), an urbane and witty analysis of how these three divisions of the ego can produce self-defeating scripts or "games." Thomas Harris added Psychiatrist Alfred Adler's concept of a universal "inferiority feeling." In Harris' view, many people go through life thinking of themselves as helpless children overwhelmed by adults. This stance, which he calls "I'm not OK -- You're OK," is often no one's fault. Even good parents who warn their children not to run into a busy street can build...
Harris' emphasis on the universality of early psychic damage veers close to the traditional Christian concept of original sin. As a result, other transactional analysts have regularly accused the Harrises of determinism, a charge that their new book attempts to deflect. "At each juncture of life," they write, "we have had choices to make regardless of what our parents told us or showed us. We have said both...
...will end, which is just as well. McCullough's claim to inverse greatness in this book does not rest on what she tells but on her miraculous ability to tell it | ludicrously. She seems to emulate a process she admiringly ascribes to Dr. Christian: "to ruminate some particularly knotty concept into smooth mental paste." Hence the cascade of cliches, many per page and even paragraph. An adviser tells the President: "It's a hot potato, none hotter. We may be biting off more than we can chew." The "cool lustrous brain" of Judith Carriol manifests itself dimly: "The less people...
TIME's latest Yankelovich poll shows that, by a 51%-to-17% vote, Americans support the general idea of a "flat tax." The reform concept is popular because, the poll shows, only 2% consider the existing tax system "very fair" and 24% view it as "not fair at all." When specific deductions are cited, however, such as those for home-mortgage interest, charitable contributions and property taxes, large majorities oppose any move to ban them. That, of course, is at the heart of the dilemma faced by the reformers...