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More recently, convergence has been taken up with considerable enthusiasm by economists-notably the Dutch Nobel prizewinner Jan Tinbergen and Harvard's John Kenneth Galbraith. In The New Industrial State, Galbraith states with his customary élan that technology has an imperative all its own. On the Russian side, advanced industrialization will inevitably lead to greater intellectual curiosity and freedom; in the U.S., it will inexorably lead to more planning and centralized economic controls...
...apostasy. The record states that master and student parted for ideological reasons, principally because Jung refused to accept the Freudian tenet that virtually all human emotional problems could be traced to sex. The Jungian school enlarged the definition of the libido into a vital life-force, or Bergsonian élan, of which the sex drive is only a component-and not a very big one at that...
...troops were called in to help police break up a march of about 250 Protestants to the new Martyrs Memorial Church of the Rev. lan Paisley. The troops fired tear gas when the demonstrators tried to push through a cordon blocking their procession...
...coffee that tasted like tea and the nurses standing sternly with crossed arms under the pillars and my fellow patients dressed in cheap cotton with a half a set of teeth each. And back in O-2 I began expectantly thinking about what it would be like to have lan walk onto the ward and say let's go and as easy as that leave this enormous machine that endlessly cranks out thick swatches of time like huge strings of taffy. It was absurd to be able to simply walk out. Some elaborate rite of passage seemed called...
...Finally lan came with a big smile and we went into Mrs. Snowden's office to say goodby. I talked to her for the first time since I met her, three days ago. I think that all I said was wow. She laughed and said she thought I was a monk because all I did was sit curled up in a chair and never spoke to anyone. Then lan and I walked down the caged-in stairwell and I looked down and said goodby to the civil defense water and then we walked through the O-Building canteen and said...