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...there the buck stops. The tendency, states the memo, is "to employ permissiveness as a 'crutch' in rationalizing disciplinary problems...
...shunned moralizing in favor of viewing alcoholism as an emotional crutch combined with a physical allergy to liquor. Thus A.A.'s methods leaned more heavily on psychology than physiology. Recognizing that alcoholics must not merely control their consumption but curb it entirely, A.A. members listened to each other's stories and helped one another resist the temptation to drink. But they never forgot that the major effort to abstain must be made by the drinker himself. "The only requirement for A.A. membership," according to an organization tradition, "is a sincere desire to stop drinking...
...only people who thoroughly enjoy being assistants-to are vampires. The assistant-to recommends itself to the weak or lazy manager as a crutch. It helps him where he shouldn't and can't be helped- head-to-head contact with his people...
...long time. I have this theory that when I do, I will shed other things too-maybe my inhibitions." But Renee Holt, 22, approached her barber's appointment with anxiety. Fondly caressing her long golden tresses, she said bravely: "In a way, long hair is a crutch for a woman. Once the hair is short, one may develop other things, like the intellect. But I have been thinking what my father will...
...Thank God, I am still an atheist," claims Director Luis Buñuel. On that rock he has built his crutch-a lifelong obsession with Spanish Catholicism. In a career that spans four decades and nearly 40 films, Bunñel, now 69, has occasionally abandoned the object of his love-hate, as in the erotic trivia of Belle de Jour. But such lapses are brief. With The Milky Way the grand old unbeliever returns to his favorite theme in a magical mystery tour of the dogma, hypocrisy and glories of Christianity...