Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hearers found the prospect an unbearable stress, says Dr. Sargant. He quotes Wesley as describing meeting after meeting at which the penitent burst into tears, cried aloud, sweated profusely, shook all over, and often fell into stuporous states. This final stage seemed to fit both Pavlovian theory and modern psychiatric observation-that a patient usually collapses exhausted after a soul-wringing catharsis which is achieved by reliving an emotionally damaging experience...
Psychiatrist Sargant sees these quick conversions under great emotional stress almost anywhere. He believes that every important conversion recorded in the New Testament (most notably that of Saul of Tarsus, persecutor of Christians, to Paul the Apostle) was of this type. In modern times, thinks Sargant, many conversions to and from Communism (e.g., Arthur Koestler's carefully recorded experiences) followed the pattern. So, too, did religious and pagan dedications among Voodooists in Haiti, among some tribes on the west coast of Africa, among the Quakers (says Sargant, because they "shook and trembled before the Lord"), among the lamas...
...more rare.) An exhaustive study for the U.S. Department of Defense by Manhattan Drs. Lawrence E. Hinkle and Harold G. Wolff-based on hundreds of intensive studies of escaped and repatriated prisoners from Eastern Europe and China and with former Red inquisitors who have "come over"-showed that modern techniques of political persuasion behind the Iron and Bamboo Curtains are simply an extension of time-honored methods used by cops and thought-controllers for centuries. The few refinements recently added are probably the result of studying past experience, not of applying Pavlov. But in the battle for his own mind...
...should not be seen smoking on the street. Scooters and motorcycles may be used only with special permission and on church business-and never with a female passenger. And he reminded priests that they "are prohibited from all those public spectacles in which scandals are seen-theaters, cinemas, modern dances, professional football, bull rings...
...Last week its artistic companion piece and focal point was set into place: a massive (36 tons, 80 ft. tall), free-standing sculpture, placed on the sidewalk, that reaches up nearly to the top of the five-story department store. It is the most ambitious and successful combination of modern sculpture and architecture yet attempted...