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From the outset they eschew the political scientist's concern with institutions alone and concentrate instead on "the large forces that determine the content of policy." They realize that policy decisions arise not from technical considerations but from conflict among interests, ideologies, values, and prejudices. This conflict and the management of it constitute the political process...
...that time Paul Robeson was Chairman of the Council on American Affairs and Dubois became associated with this group. But in 1946 the Cold War began and in 1947 the Justice Department issued a list of "subversive" organizations; it included the Council in its witch-hunt. DuBois' refusal to eschew either his views or his associations led to his swift dismissal from the NAACP...
Electro-com's message, of course, can be a pitch for anything from a political candidate to a bottle of mouthwash, though the tiny monster's promoter, 22-year-old Jeff Schottenstein of Los Angeles, wants to eschew the hard sell for fear that "the Public Utilities Commission will declare us a public menace." TWA has tested the device for confirming reservations. Another Electro-com prospect: Allstate Insurance (to remind people that their policies are about to expire...
...country should be more conservative than their elders is a constant source of wonderment to observers within the party. With the exception of California, where a Birch backed candidate recently emerged from a ruthlessly sophisticated campaign with full control of the state Young Republican organization, most extreme conservatives eschew direct Birch Society ties. But that does not affect the extremity of their convictions...
...brain-box complex. It is the game-playing fragment--a useful and entertaining tool but quite irrelevant to survival... We over-value the mind--that flimsy collection of learned words and verbal connections; the mind, that system of paranoid delusions with the learned self as center. And we eschew the non-mind, non-game intuitive insight-outlook which is the key to the religious experience, to the love experience." (T. Leary, "How to change behavior," in G.S. Nielsen (Ed.) Clinical psychology: proceedings of the 14th international congress of applied psychology, vol. 4; Copenhagen, 1962.) Whatever its truth, in some sense...