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High school physics students experience the same changes in attitudes within four years of graduation regardless of their curricula, Watson concluded. "These enormous changes in attitudes are tremendously significant, but I have to confess that I don't know what caused them," he said...
...Rostand's structure. Cyrano de Bergerac, France's greatest swordsman and a distinguished poet, is hated by the nobility for his iconoclastic boorishness and unflinching sense of independence. Admired by friends, loathed by enemies, he is cursed by his grotesquely protuberant nose. Because of his ugliness, he cannot confess his deepest secret-a passionate love for his cousin Roxana. But when the heroine falls in love with an Adonean but doltish young soldier, Cyrano offers to help him by writing the love-letters whose beauty win Roxana's heart. Christian, the beautiful youth, seeks triumph of the flesh; Cyrano...
...remain intact. One can go about pleasing the senses only after he has felt the satisfaction of work well done. The titillations of adultery and free sex induce a dizziness curable in the stability of the marriage contract, which stipulates a spouse to whom one can come home, and confess. External order, the ordering of artifacts and bodies, counterbalances internal confusion. The bourgeois rebels are "normal" after all. Skinner provides hands to catch the falling sinner...
However, Anthony Russo told The Crimson that Bundy asked to testify. "He's the only volunteer we've had," Russosaid. "He wanted to come here and confess...
...Louds, who were not paid a penny for the series, allow such public scrutiny of their lives? "I think there are a lot of American families who would let this happen," says Dr. Thomas Cottle, a psychotherapist at M.I.T. "It is a compulsion of this culture-the compulsion to confess." Dr. Roderick Gorney, a psychologist at U.C.L.A., agrees. "Ten years ago the Louds wouldn't have permitted TV to film intimate details of their domestic life. But the sense of privacy has been very much changed." Asks Bill, a handsome six-footer who amiably acknowledges that he is quite...