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...exhaustive study of homosexuals in therapy, a group of researchers headed by Psychoanalyst Irving Bieber observed that a large number of homosexuals came from families where the father was either hostile, aloof or ineffectual and where the mother was close-binding and inappropriately intimate (CBI in scientific jargon). Bieber's wife, Psychologist Toby Bieber, has found many of the same patterns in the parents of lesbians, although in reverse...
THIS GIVES us a clue to the awesome power of the technocracy in our world. Rationalized in the jargon of industrial necessity and Objective Science, the technocracy transcends political ideology, even revolutionary ideology. It grows without check in all industrial societies-capitalist or collectivist, Roszak emphasizes-while its often disastrous breakdowns are blamed on this political faction by that one. Everywhere, the dominant motives are social integration and control. (E. g.: big business in America, now assured of fairly steady profits, seeks along with the government to "rationalize" -manipulate and control-the total economy of the country and, if possible...
...have condemned the Weatherman assault on the CFIA an act of violence against working people. Yet there is nothing in the morality of Mr. Hyland or the local SDS that assures such thoughtful discrimination in the future. When the time is right-when, to use Mr. Hyland's jargon, a "combination of possibilities and a progressive view of history" make violence against persons useful-we shall have the violence and with it a revised edition of the "Defense of Terrorism." It isn't hard to defend this kind of Schrecklichkelt when the end justifies the means and the only real...
ALONE WITH AMERICA by Richard Howard. 594 pages. Afheneum. $12.95. Too many cross-eyed insights and too much precious jargon detract from an otherwise vast and valuable accounting of American poetry since...
...that Indonesia had been underestimating its capacity for investments. We recommended first a primer on how to judge strength for investments, and second, that they be less forthcoming with tax-exemptions to foreign investors. We find, however, that it is not a zero-sum game, if Ican use the jargon of the trade...