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...worse than that. Probably the world's worst. Probably I didn't deserve to live. It doesn't simply take away your self-confidence. It destroys you." Elliot Liebow, chief of the Federal Government's Center for Work and Mental Health, says that the very nub of the lost-job syndrome is the victim's feeling of being cut off from personal and social power The sense of powerlessness is compounded by all but universal self-blame, says Liebow, adding: "One very destructive thing is the enormous difficulty people have in seeing themselves as victims...
This is the nub of John Paul's contest with Roman Catholic liberals. He believes in a God who has revealed very specific teachings, known collectively as "the deposit of faith," and that no Pope is in a position to change them. But what will be the results if no change occurs? Liberals fear that despite the enormous regard in which multitudes hold this remarkable new Pope, his hard line will drive more Roman Catholics out of the church and discourage men and women from entering the priesthood and the religious orders. The competing theory, heard increasingly...
...doubles semifinal, Pompan and Chaikovsky fought off four match points in the second set against Yale's Cary Leeds and Billy Brady before taking the set 7-6. At 4-4 of the tie-breaker, Pompan pummelled a Leeds serve cross-court which a poaching Brady could only nub with the end of his racket. The Yale tandem came back to capture a one-break third set 6-3. Brady led the way with outstanding reflex volleying from close...
INTELLIGENCE GATHERING. "The nub of intelligence is an intellectual process of coming to the best possible judgment," says Colby. "You can tell what's good quality by reading it and testing it. Get different people to evaluate it. Get some outside critics. You want to involve a lot of people, not just professionals. A director should get a whole mix of opinions, maybe from a whole bunch of different panels-experts of every political coloration...
...late 'sixties exploded the "New Frontier" assumption that personal career advancement is complementary to the welfare of all the people, sending many students stumbling across class lines as cab-drivers, carpenters, farmers, factory-workers, and bums. The spiritual nub of their "downward mobility" was a thirst to encounter the world differently from the way a newly-minted upper middle class professional does--to encounter it with reverence, in dialogue, and with some of that delight, that "excellency of childhood" (Reinhold Niebuhr) without which all the wellsprings of human endeavor run dry. They felt that, if permanently cast as "professionals...