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Joseph McCarthy, by no means the only man to exploit the nation's latent fears, gave the era his name since he, more than any one else, had, to borrow Richard Rovere's phrase, "surer, swifter access to the dark places of the American mind...
...Tsirimokos left Constantine's supporters beginning to wonder whether it might not have been preferable for him to accede to Papandreou's original demands for elections six weeks ago. In the interim, angry demonstrators, egged on by Papandreou's attacks on the "palace slaves," have whipped latent public distrust of the monarchy to a fever pitch. An election held now would probably not only return Papandreou to office, but be interpreted as a plebiscite on the monarchy as well...
...similar grant was given the University in January and earmarked for use this Spring. Under the terms of the grants, the money is dispensed by the College for work which helps to "discover latent talents and learn or improve job skills...
...Erhard's greatest assets. Cursed with an undistinguished television image and isolated in West Berlin from most voters, he has so far failed to develop into the charismatic personality the Socialists need. Moreover, despite support from students and intellectuals, his party has done little to exploit the latent "time for a change" philosophy that should militate in its favor after 16 years out of power. The party slogan, "Sicker ist sicker" (roughly, "Play it safe") is designed to reassure voters that, despite their Marxist origins, the Socialists are now a respectable, middle-class party -but somehow the words seem...
Demian is the hero's daemon, a figure that embodies the latent power of his own personality, the god within him that is evil as well as good. The novel describes how at first the opposites oppose each other but at last are reconciled in the self the hero becomes. In effect, the book is a case history of the integration process as Jung describes it, and as such it frequently suffers from schematism. The characters are concepts and their lives are theories, but somehow the abstractions are all bathed in a luminous and powerful stream of feeling that...