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Rosenberg was right in labelling this view austere. While it is easy to admire the manner in which Rosen explores the simplistic view of humanity inherent to what he calls "fast talk and quick cure in the era of feeling," the book would nevertheless disappoint anyone seeking alternative avenues towards some brand of contentment. This, Rosen is quick to declare, was emphatically not his objective. Indeed, a fairly persistent theme of Psychobabble (one derived from Rosenberg) is that the intellectual turns answers into questions...
...improve matters, Carter must also come to some tough conclusions and realizations about himself. He must disappoint friends, even fire them if necessary. He must stonewall critics at times, reserve his power and prestige for issues that matter-not for Bert Lance. He must get mad at the right people at the right time...
While he and Lucy carry on like stage eccentrics, Scott dexterously endows them with past lives and disappoint ments, a third dimension that turns the question of their fate into a matter of importance as well as curiosity...
...Sanders instead of discovering the modest little boardinghouse that makes the best quiche Lorraine this side of Provence. True, perhaps, but one reason drivers keep turning to the finger-lickin' chicken is that they have been burned so often at Mom's and similar places. Restaurant surprises disappoint far oftener than they delight...
...soundness of our democratic structure has been fully vindicated. The Indian electorate is fully aware of its democratic rights, and I have every hope that it will always exercise these rights with discretion for the national good." If she recalls these words, the recent election surely cannot have disappointed her. Hopefully the new government will not disappoint the people of India...