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Total narcissism is generally taken to mean an inability to distinguish the self from the outside world, as an infant makes no distinction between himself, his mother and a bottle of milk. Reeling from some past wound to selfesteem, the narcissist exploits and manipulates others in a quest to be admired. Says Psychoanalyst Donald Kaplan: "Other people exist like a candy machine. If there's no candy left, the narcissist starts kicking the machine...
...experience so rare that few are qualified to distinguish the false from the genuine article. What has long been needed is a global Bureau of Mystical Standards, or at least an impartial Spiritual Assayer who is thoroughly trained in both Eastern and Western traditions and values. The right man may now have turned up. Son of a Hindu father and a German mother, Agehananda Bharati grew up in between-wars Vienna, studied in Indian monasteries, and then took degrees in anthropology and philosophy at the University of Washington. He is now chairman of the department of anthropology at Syracuse University...
...members of the educated class "to set themselves against the prevailing vulgarity that has become characteristic of American life: It is for them to endeavor to elevate the standard of public taste...to promote and foster...that true inward refinement which alone makes possible the higher social enjoyments that distinguish civilization from barbarism dressed...
Cunliffe's book, though it was written nearly 20 years ago, may still be the best work to begin with. For he confronts the Washington problem head on, not so much telling a life as examining it in an attempt to distinguish the original human shape from the contours of the final monument that patriotic 19th century historians helped erect. Cunliffe's conclusion is that the man and the monument merged even within Washington's lifetime. What we have left must simply pass for the real thing...
Flexible Goals. Concerned that their findings might be construed as a green light for abstaining alcoholics to begin drinking again, the Rand group warned that there is no known way to distinguish between those who can safely begin to drink in moderation and those who might immediately go off the deep end into alcoholism again. Their recommendation: "Alcoholics who have repeatedly failed to moderate their drinking or have irrevocable physical complications due to alcoholism should not drink at all." Instead, they said, their findings suggest that in treating alcoholism, goals be set that are more "flexible" than only abstinence. Their...