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Ziporyn, who has since written a book on Speck and examined more than 300 other murderers, also contends that they seem "normal" until that "moment when the brakes go"-when the right combination of chemical, physical, psychic and social factors sends them out of control. "In a serial crime like Houston," Ziporyn says, "it's probably safe to say that after the first murder Corll saw it was easy to kill, and the rest of his victims were not people to him, they were like dolls...
None of the new emergency-care corporations seems to have any trouble attracting doctors. Many young physicians welcome the guaranteed salaries, regular hours and scheduled vacations that characterize full-time ER work. Some are even more attracted by the psychic rewards that emergency medicine offers. "I like the type of medicine where the pathology is often critical and what I do is often crucial," says Dr. Ellen Taliaferro, 33, who helped form a group that provides service to hospitals in Santa Monica and Inglewood, Calif. "It makes me feel very good that I make a difference...
...that seemed to come alive and clutch at her; the vision of the creation of the world in Fantasia; Pinocchio's search for his father, taking him through the grotesque amusement park on the island of lost boys and into the belly of a whale-these sequences strummed psychic chords that live-action comedies like The Barefoot Executive (1971) do not aspire to touch...
...path of his nationalist revolution is outlined in the concluding essay, a speech given by Professor G. William Domhoff at a University of California student strike rally in 1968. The weapon of the radical is "psychic guerrilla warfare"--non-violent confrontation politics, waged with "unfailing good humor, psychological analysis, and the flower power of the hippie." Beginning with a core of academics and intellectuals, the movement will win over blue collar workers, small businessmen and farmers, and eventually the New Right, another foe of the corporate giants...
...wants Americans to acknowledge the war as "an image of ultimate transgression." Redemption, he feels, can come by adopting an attitude of "animating guilt"-a catalyst for transforming destructive old instincts and concepts into constructive new ones. Is such psychic alchemy possible on a national scale? Lifton confesses that he does not know. But he urges that the na tion take his veterans as models...