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...Ober is more concerned with the writer's psychosexual disorders. A sickly child and youth who was rejected for service in World War I, Lawrence probably doubted his masculinity. In his last years, illness-related impotence may have compounded this problem. Ober thinks that the novelist was a latent homosexual. He cites incriminating passages from The White Peacock and allusions in Lady Chatterley's Lover that Mellors did not limit himself to ordinary heterosexual acts with Lady C. The difficulty with such speculation is that the term latent covers a long and slippery gradient. One might just...
...angry, alienated, semiliterate and drug-prone. Some veterans feel that their experience in Viet Nam makes prospective employers wary. Says Bruns Grayson, who went on to Harvard and Oxford after five years in Viet Nam: "What I find offensive is the feeling that all Viet Nam vets are latent psychos or, like Jon Voight in Coming Home, sensitive and guilt-ridden. These are comic-book caricatures." Charles Figley, a Purdue University psychologist who wrote a study of his fellow Viet Nam veterans, agrees: "All the myths about the guy being a walking time bomb are just total and utter fantasy...
...environment. Visitors to China are supposed to stay out of local politics, but how can one expect red-blooded Americans to refrain from promoting human rights? Our 19th century promotion of Protestant Christianity in China made its contribution, and the spirit of proselytism for the American way is still latent in most of us. Experience abroad tends to draw it forth and we almost inevitably find ourselves as Americans announcing to our foreign friends how the individual should have his rights vis-a-vis the state. The Chinese may observe that we in America stand firm for habeas corpus even...
...from the underground and initially bringing with them arms supplied by the Palestine Liberation Organization, the Marxists were primarily responsible for an ugly outburst of anti-Americanism, long latent in Iran but never before so viciously expressed. At midweek, leftist gunmen attacked the U.S. embassy in downtown Tehran (see following pages), taking 70 American prisoners, killing one Iranian employee and injuring two Marines. One of the prisoners was Ambassador William Sullivan. Forces loyal to Khomeini were able to lift the siege after two hours, but the Carter Administration (as well as the British and several other Western governments) concluded that...
...first-rate slogan is potent indeed when properly contrived. It becomes as easy to remember as it is hard to forget. It plants itself in the consciousness by rhythm, rhyme, pith or brevity. Once there, it works not only by whatever imagery it carries but-more-by the latent emotions it mobilizes. It plays too on the verities and prejudices of its audience, balming or inflaming them according to purpose. Just so, the slogan lurks as a sort of floating hook in the psyche. Properly tugged, it can impel people to coalesce, to divide, to fight, to sacrifice, to vote...