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Laughlin is not only a doer; he is a dreamer. His Jungian analyst receives daily tapes of Tom's dreams. One amanuensis who transcribed the tapes recalls, "The dreams were lurid. Lots of sexual details, so much so I simply don't believe he really had such dreams but was titillated by having me listen to them...
...Next doer, at Paul's Mail, tenor man Sonny Rollins will be playing at 8:30, 10:30 and 12:30. Rollins is the great myth of jazz. Even though he has not budged an inch from his already well-worn style of the early 60's, he is still one of the most revered musicans around His latest stuff is real disappointment for those who remember when he and Coltrane were vying for most innovative tenor. Shows no signs of coming around...
Cases vary widely. State and local officials are being investigated and indicted in unprecedented numbers. The record of a durable doer like New York's Robert Moses is debunked. The awesome images of Nelson Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger have been leaked on with acid. The public's approval of Presidents, at least as measured by opinion polls, fluctuates wildly...
Kearns says Johnson's decision to enter politics was a conscious attempt to reconcile the demands of both parents: he could be a doer for his father and "talk big ideas" for his mother. Politics, in the Kearns view, became not only the search for power and the channel for conflicts but a way to earn love according to his mother's rules. "His entire self-esteem," she says, "rested on being admired." L.B.J. talked incessantly with Kearns of wanting to be loved. Putting his last hopes in history, he told her, "If the American people...
...Kennedy would outflank him on the right, arguing that Johnson had abandoned President Kennedy's commitment to South Viet Nam. Kearns suggests that Johnson may have had a special horror of Bobby as a man who met the same conflicting parental demands (be a thinker, be a doer) in a way he never could...