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...insincere and alien world, and remember, all grins must be grim. There shall be no deviation in our long march to universal self-fulfillment. All lips shall remain pursed, if you please. All humor will be in the service of social realism, and all laughter, determined by economic dictum: the will of the people is to harness laughter in order to further the will of the people. Put on your chin-straps, please. Begin laughing...
...step ahead of this objection; as Roazen notes, he is quick to admit that his insights are not comprehensive explanations of personality. Erikson once suggested that modern thinkers should incorporate Freud as a theorist of sex, and Marx as a theorist of work. Playing on Freud's famous dictum that "anatomy is destiny," Erikson has taken the less reductionist view that "anatomy, history and personality are our combined destiny...
...write. When he is finished, he must analyze the paragraph and explain -again on paper-whether his "organizing idea" survived the actual writing process. Finally, he reviews the whole exercise with the instructor, who may order him to do it all over-remembering, of course, the Van Nostrand dictum that a student must write as if he had "a contract with the reader...
...talk like you. When I'm with a Chicago hoodlum, I talk like him. I'm a chameleon." This free-floating identity comes with the territory that Terkel long ago carved out for himself. Through sheer unobtrusiveness, he has become a man after Henry James' dictum: one on whom nothing is lost...
...sacrifices were accompanied by basic economic reforms that would significantly alter Italian society. Said he: "There cannot be an austerity policy to return to things as they were." To no one's surprise, the central committee formally endorsed the Berlinguer line and, in accordance with the Leninist dictum of "democratic centralism," formally closed ranks. It also ordered up the current grass-roots "popularization" campaign to win support for austerity and the party line. As a consequence, rank-and-file comrades across the country have been heatedly discussing the issue with representatives from the party's central headquarters...