Word: minimall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Union Carbide's management has tried to allay shareholders' fears. "The Bhopal tragedy is without precedent," said an official statement. "But considering both the insurance and other resources available, the financial structure of Union Carbide is not threatened." The company would not reveal the source or the extent...
The FDIC, which staged a $4.5 billion bailout of the failing institution last September, made the sweeping ouster at Continental partly to remind bank directors across the U.S. of their supervisory responsibilities. The FDIC dismissed all the directors elected to Continental's board before 1980 because it was during...
The Minimal Self, Christopher Lasch's book of all-over-the-page analysis and erudite grumbling, represents one such discrepancy. A sociologist by profession. Lasch made his reputation several years ago with The Culture of Narcissism. In that book as in this, he tries to explain modern life by generalizing...
Lasch's book is an attempt to describe today's Everyman as "a minimal or narcisstic self". This psychological construct is "above all, a self uncertain of its own outlines, longing either to remake the world in its own image or to merge into its environment in blissful union."
The most interesting (and also the most convoluted) section of The Minimal Self is the conclusion, which deals with politics. Lasch examines and rejects positions he describes as analagous to liberalism and conservatism, instead suggesting a more sound third position through an insinuatingly critical summary of post-Freudian attempts to...