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Congratulations! Chris Farley, for your sobering and insightful essay on Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday (Crimson, Jan. 22). Undoubtedly, your statements may shock the sensibilities of many, who would rather ignore the racial problems that still remain in this country. Despite the progress that has been made, racism is all too pervasive in the U.S., and the economic and social inequalities that separate Blacks and whites are staggering. Too many Americans, intoxicated with their own self-righteousness, choose to wave their flags in the face of racism and listen to the man (Ronald Reagan) who twists the words...
...into the fog together, Thomson asks more. Where did the cynical French policeman and the hard-boiled American come from? What will they do after the final fade-out? And what of Laura Hunt and Waldo Lydecker (Gene Tierney and Clifton Webb in Laura), Guy Haines and Bruno Anthony (Farley Granger and Robert Walker in Strangers on a Train) and Norma Desmond and Joe Gillis (Gloria Swanson and William Holden in Sunset Boulevard...
Using various psychological and physiological tests, Farley thinks he can identify Type Ts with reasonable accuracy. In maze tests, for example, stimu lus seekers constantly vary their routes, even after finding an exit. In figure tests, where subjects are asked to make a circle around a design they like best, Type Ts tend to choose complex patterns. In studies that Farley ran at schools for juvenile delinquents, he found, as expected, that Type Ts were four to seven times as likely to try to escape as non-thrill seekers, presumably because they found prison life so intolerably dull and routine...
Type Ts, says Farley, are invariably high-energy people, some of whom find excitement in mental exercise. Scientist Crick, he points out, was a successful physicist who switched in mid-career to biology, where he won honors for his work with DNA. Sometimes, Farley believes, the energy goes awry: Belushi, a creative entertainer, sought stimulation in drugs, turning from a T-plus into a T-minus. Says Farley: "I can't predict whether the Type T will become a Dillinger or a Crick, but if you can interest them early and work with them, you can push them toward...
...Farley is now talking about setting up special therapy for Type Ts that would combine a search for socially approved outlets with some behavior modification to change people from T-minus tracks to T-plus ones. "This country, in order to survive this century and beyond, needs enormous levels of creativity," says Farley. "The interesting thing is that the destructive forces-crime, drinking and driving--arise from the same group who could be the most creative...