Word: psychee
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THE SIMPLEST EXPLANATION--President Nixon's explanation, to judge by his attacks on those who "downgrade" the United States--is that Vietnam provided a convenient occasion for anti-American feeling. The most obvious weakness in such an explanation is also the most obvious omission in most liberal criticisms of America...
IT'S A SHAME that more people aren't going to see Zardoz. Perhaps homosexual rape and man's battle against nature ring more resonantly than sci-fi satire in the vacuous American psyche: No other hypothesis can account for the low popularity of John Boorman's latest film, which...
The surrealists, the most determinedly shocking of the early modern artists, wanted to abolish tradition. They prided themselves on being revolution aries with no past, no precedents beyond the immortal, irrational desires of the human psyche. But one of the rules-of-thumb of art experience is that very little...
Recent diagnosers of the national psyche have asked, and partly answered, the questions implicit in their titles. Will America's 300-year-old marathon, The Pursuit of Loneliness, never stop? inquired Philip Slater. Theodore Roszak wondered whether the counterculture of the '60s could lead to a Promised Land...
The year 1973 probably cost Americans more in terms of their self-image than any year in recent memory. The effect was dismaying as Watergate, pro longed economic malaise, sudden energy shortages and a general crisis of authority and trust lodged deeply with in the national psyche. In an odd...