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The danger is not that a new post-Wasp personality will emerge. A nation's character is not so mutable; it takes major upheaval -- revolution, conquest -- to transform it. What is possible, however, is that the character America already possesses will slip into chronic malfunction. Most of us will keep...
For one example, the 10-year collaboration between Freud and Carl Gustav Jung broke off abruptly in 1914, with profound consequences for the discipline they helped create. There would henceforth be Freudians and Jungians, connected chiefly by mutual animosities. Why did a warm, fruitful cooperation end in an icy schism...
The careers of these Clintonites have been centered around spouting--they are cerebral fountains. For consultants, lawyers and academics, fruitful rumination may be considered a legitimate accomplishment. But in politics, it is implementation that counts.
Furthermore, their methods of subversive communication are inconsistent with the ends they seek (an all-inclusive Undergraduate Council) and resemble hypocrisy rather than fruitful dialogue. To quote a recent memorandum distributed to all Council women, "Only female U.C. members are allowed to join us...to take part in continuing conversations...
The rest of the family gets along well enough -- "at times," Leo says, "their lunacies harmonized" -- but he is an outsider, an orphan. These people think he is theirs. Leo knows better: "Because I dream, I'm not." He is half Italian: Leolo Lozone, conceived during his mother's fruitful...