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Despite its fluffy title, I'm OK -- You're OK was one of the more persuasive pop psychology works to come out of California during the 1960s. Author Thomas A. Harris managed the intellectual feat of combining the conventional sunlit optimism of the period with a few of the darker strains of Freudian and Christian thinking. The result: a surprising, 15 million-copy best seller...
...during the great violence of the war, masculine power came to be subtly discredited in many circles as oafish and destructive. The heritage of the Enlightenment (the scientific method, progress, that dreamy Jeffersonian clarity of mind that told us all problems could be solved) now seemed drawn into a darker business. D.H. Lawrence once wrote that the essential American soul was "hard, stoic, isolate, and a killer...
Those stories which are cast in the first person, while never quite losing the ironic tone, are darker and less distanced from their own pain. "What is Seized" is a fragmented account of a mother-daughter relationship (one of Moore's recurrent obsessions) in which both characters attempt to come to terms with the painful legacy of a bad husband and father: 'Cold men destroy women,' my mother wrote to me years later. They woo them with something personable that they bring out for show, something annexed to their souls like a fake greenhouse, lead you in, and you think...
...German cockroach, blattella germanica, which are colored greenish-gold and grow to be an inch long, is the most common breed in Harvard dining halls, says Alpert. Darker roaches like the periplaneta americana and Oriental blatta orientalis are found outside kitchens in places that includes student rooms, he adds...
...writing in 1970, Thompson, the drug-driven madman journalist who lived in Louisville (or "Looahvull," to say it properly) for his first 18 years, may have seen a darker side of the event, so seemingly out of place in that turbulent time...