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...school tests, which had placed her, the psychiatrist said, in the top 5% of the nation in intelligence. Standard psychological tests revealed a person with a "childlike level of functioning," one with a "lack of self-esteem and shattered pride." The stories she made up were "sad, hopeless, with nostalgia about the past." Describing human characters in one test, she tended to use such words as "dutiful and compliant"-a common response, West told the jurors, among former prisoners of war. (One sharp judgment made by Patty: asked to finish a sentence that began "Most men," she added, "are assholes...
...they are successfully using the law against the profession itself. Five years ago, 13 women law students and recent graduates took on ten blue-chip "Wall Street" law firms. Partners in those firms are among the brightest attorneys in the country and fight on for decades even in seemingly hopeless cases. But the feminists have done remarkably well against the lawyers' home lairs. As of last week, four of the firms agreed to settle the suits by changing their hiring and recruitment practices...
...indicate that madness may have any positive intellectual value--only the sense that any restriction of brute animal instinct is unjustified. Self-expression of the strong is the sole good. McMurphy differs from the other patients in that he remains physically unimpaired while mentally he's just as hopeless as they are--even more so since, unlike most of them, he doesn't realize there is anything wrong with...
...happy with his leftward drift; he seemed headed for probable defeat. So rather than run for the Senate again, he astonished his constituents by declaring for the presidency. One stalwart financial backer, New York Investment Banker Herbert Allen, kept his campaign alive for six weeks. When it seemed hopeless, Harris withdrew...
...about time you began to realize that neither Barry Goldwater nor Ron ald Reagan is mounting "a hopeless crusade against the 20th century...