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This tone of pedantic tolerance oozes from the book. Although billing the volume as a scholarly treatment, Wolpe does not rely on his theories to retain the reader's interest. Nearly everyone has some needless anxiety--a fear of heights or of strangers, of small dogs or public speaking. But Wolpe ignores these more common fears, packing his chapters instead with a parade of human oddities which belong in psychiatric journals or future editions of Ripley's Believe It Or Not. We meet Dale, a 33-year-old man who is deeply upset each day by the late afternoon...
...wasn' justice. The team never came back from the blocked punt, and soon it was down by two touchdowns and the game was almost over. One team had three quarters to recover from the misfortune, the other had three minutes. Needless to say, it didn't happen...
Many of the same problems apply to the selection of grand juries, which hear a prosecutor's presentation of a case and then decide whether a suspect should be indicted. Grand juries are supposed to protect citizens against intimidating prosecutions, but many experts now regard them as a needless anachronism and an opportunity for prosecutorial excess. Most states no longer require their use, but the federal courts and 22 states still insist upon them for serious crimes...
...conservative ideologues are succeeding in their attempt to paint labor unions as greedy, unecessary, corrupt and bad for the economy. There are the glossy ads of the National Right to Work committee, which is gaining dangerous political clout, especially in the anti-union South. There was the next-to-needless baseball strike, with the slightly revolting sight of vastly overpaid and underworked players demanding more. And now there is the most popular president in recent memory taking to nationwide t.v. to infer that striking air traffic controllers are greedy traitors manipulated by union bosses...
...than the criminals-in-chief of Superman's home planet, Krypton. At the end of Part I, they were imprisioned by our hero's father and doomed to float about the galaxy in a funky outer-space jail cell. Freed, they decided to take over earth and rule forever, needless to say, in a most unpleasant manner...