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...endlessly by McCall's magazine was a merchandiser's dream: the family as a consuming unit. Not everyone was satisfied. Halberstam's dissenters include Sloan Wilson, who popularized the rat race in The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, and Betty Friedan, whose The Feminine Mystique, along with Goody Pincus' birth-control pill, challenged traditional relations between men and women...
...Pincus, talking in a gentle, take-your-time manner, shifted to other questions. Then he asked, "Do you hear things that are there, but other people don't hear...
...have hallucinations?" asked Pincus...
...frontal lobes, where decision-making begins. Patients commonly imagine that people on television and in magazines are talking to them directly and personally. They become antisocial and depressed and hear aggressive voices that can sometimes command them to commit suicide -- or, on rare occasions, to kill someone. Pincus is convinced that homicidal violence only occurs when child abuse and brain damage are also part of the picture...
...Pincus is so convinced that Bobby was abused as a child that he has said so in testimony. When he did, Ruby Shaw got up and left the courtroom. She later told him, "I know you had to say all that, but I just couldn't stand reliving those terrible times." Says Pincus: "I believe he was abused -- beaten and burned." As for brain damage, tests administered in 1990 indicate that Shaw's right parietal lobe is damaged. That is the area of the brain that controls how we interpret the behavior of others. Shaw's frontal lobes are also...