Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ultimate hero is the democratic process itself, which is bigger than any individual. This may cut down heroes. But it can also inspire an increment of effort that can make a hero out of many a man who was born in obscurity and never suspected his own strength...
...process that also gives American heroism, once achieved, a special status. For despite the glib techniques of image-building, the American chooses his heroes only in a final stubbornness of spirit that resists campaign posters, opinion polls, or cocktail harangues. It is an act that differentiates Americans from other people in other times, who may have felt that their heroes had already become heroes without consultation. The American has a sense of electing his own heroes-a vote freely given that can also be freely withdrawn. Without advice and consent, there are no heroes...
...process, a true nation 'is emerging out of what once was four major tribal confederations and two or three urban centers. As its leader, Feisal himself was his own best proof of the change last week. In his flowing white robes and gold headband, he flew off to Spain for five days of trade and foreign-investment talks with Francisco Franco. From Madrid he goes on to Washington this week, where he will meet with President Johnson to discuss economic development and other problems of the Middle East. In the old days of Saudi extravagance, there would have been...
...majority, he said, was making "new law and new public policy" as it created a right to counsel to protect the Fifth Amendment privilege against selfincrimination. The results, said White, may be horrendous, and he had "no desire whatsoever to share the responsibility" for the impact on the criminal process. "In some unknown number of cases the court's rule will return a killer, a rapist or other criminal to the streets to repeat his crime whenever it pleases him." Seeing the police as now practically powerless, White worried about citizens who can "only engage in violent self-help...
...like this: the same movements the goose makes when it attacks an enemy it makes with only slight variation when it professes love for its lifelong mate. The movements are the same, the feeling is totally altered. What has intervened, in the author's opinion, is an instinctual process analogous to the one Freud calls sublimation. Animal rage has been sublimated into social feeling, aggression has been transformed into love...